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CBS had a gruesome Marine Corps story too. Pentagon correspondent David Martin profiled the legless Casey Owens, injured in Iraq in 2004. "The amputation on his right leg kept on failing and the Veterans Administration told him he would need a fourth operation to repair the stump." Quipped Owens: "I did not have much more of my leg to give." So he held out for six months in excruciating pain with a raw stump until the VA agreed to an alternate procedure. Then there was Owens' Traumatic Brain Injury. "I have gone to the VA and complained but it is usually just shrugged off as either sinus headaches or migraines or stress." Owens researched treatments himself and found charity funding for pressurized oxygen chamber therapy at a clinic near New Orleans. "Casey now plans to start college in the fall--and he had to do it on his own."
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