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524 For example: Charlie Leocha, “American Airlines May Have Violated Ethics Rules,” Tripso. com, January 30, 2009, www.tripso.com/today/american-airlines-may-have-violated-ethics-rules/.
525 It requires airlines to: “Proposed Bill of Rights for Airline Passengers,” FlyersRights.org, www.flyersrights.org/billofrights.html.
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526 In January 2009: Jason Leopold, “Obama Proposes Bigger VA Budget as Pentagon Grapples with Widespread Panic,” TheVeteransProject.org, February 26, 2009, www.theveteransproject.org/?p=336.
527 “terrifying. We don’t know”: Barbara Starr and Mike Mount, “Army Official: Suicides in January ‘Terrifying,’” CNN.com, February 5, 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/army.suicides/.
528 Twenty-four soldiers: Ibid.
529 Colonel Kathy Platoni: Ibid.
530 “the highest annual level”: Ibid.
531 One hundred and twenty-eight: Ibid.
532 Marine suicides also rose: Ibid.
533 “there is still a huge”: Ibid.
534 10 percent of the returning soldiers: Associated Press and Reuters, “1 in 10 U.S. Iraq Veterans Suffers Stress Disorder,” MSNBC.com, March 1, 2006, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11609834/.
535 Out of 222,620: Associated Press and Reuters, “1 in 10 U.S. Iraq Veterans Suffers Stress Disorder.”
536 Of those diagnosed: Ibid.
537 In their study: Carl A. Castro, Dave I. Cotting, Charles W. Hoge, Robert L. Koffman, Dennis McGurk, and Shephen C. Messer, “Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care,” New England Journal of Medicine, 351, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 13–22, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/1/13.
538 RAND says that: Office of Media Relations, “One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or Major Depression,” Rand.org, April 17, 2008, www.rand.org/news/press/2008/04/17/.
539 The study also found: Ibid.
540 And 7 percent have: Ibid.
541 RAND estimates that: Ibid.
542 “There is a major”: Ibid.
543 “produces a wide”: William M. Welch, “Trauma of Iraq War Haunting Thousands Returning Home,” USA Today, February 28, 2005, www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-02-28-cover-iraq-injuries_x.htm.
544 “feel depression, detachment”: Associated Press, “1 in 8 Returning Soldiers Suffers from PTSD.”
545 “Jesus Bocanegra”: Welch, “Trauma of Iraq War Haunting Thousands Returning Home.”
546 “Lieutenant Julian Goodrum”: Ibid.
547 “Sean Huze”: Ibid.
548 “Allen Walsh”: Ibid.
549 Sergeant Danny Facto: Sangay Gupta, “Combat Stress: The War Within,” CNN.com, July 1, 2004, http://edition.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/post.traumatic.stress/index.html.
550 “You can’t just say”: Ibid.
551 Ninety percent report: Ibid.
552 The New England Journal: Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, “Iraq War Takes Toll on GIs’ Mental Health,” FoxNews.com, September 25, 2004, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133490,00.html.
553 “There are no clear”: Ibid.
554 “Robinson said men”: Ibid.
555 “I know from walking”: Ibid.
556 “Some talk about fathers”: Ibid.
557 “I wasn’t functioning”: Ibid.
558 “After struggling through”: Ibid.
559 “The message was”: Ibid.
560 “Of those whose responses”: Castro, Cotting, Hoge et al., “Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care.”
561 “In the past five years”: Shankar Vedantam, “A Political Debate on Stress Disorder,” Washington Post, December 27, 2005, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600792.html.
562 “because the increase”: Ibid.
563 “we have young”: Ibid.
564 Those who are: Ibid.
565 “once veterans are”: Ibid.
566 “adversarial relationship”: Ibid.
567 “they are unwilling”: Ibid.
568 “what they [the VA]”: Ibid.
569 The RAND Corporation: Office of Media Relations, “One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or Major Depression.”
570 “If PTSD and depression”: Ibid.
571 “many are worried”: Ibid.
572 “the military create a system”: Ibid.
573 “Only about one”: Gregg Soroya, “Many War Vets