{"id":40097,"date":"2013-09-16T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_marine_survives_a_bombing_mission_without_visible_injuries_but_the_invisi\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:00:38","slug":"a_marine_survives_a_bombing_mission_without_visible_injuries_but_the_invisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40097","title":{"rendered":"A Marine survives a bombing mission without visible injuries, but the invisible trauma left scars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, [Marine Sargeant Dana] King has no visible scars from his time in combat. But his injuries are as real as any veteran hit by shrapnel. Instead of losing a limb, King lost functions in his brain that help him remember things, control his emotions and sometimes talk clearly.<\/p>\n<p>He covers it up well. He said most people around him don\u2019t know he\u2019s suffering from the effects of a traumatic brain injury \u201d\u201c don\u2019t know the invisible battle with his disability that he wages every day.<\/p>\n<p>And King is far from alone. Since 2000, more than 270,000 troops have been diagnosed with concussions and other traumatic head injuries. Experts say the numbers are likely much higher. A Rand Corp. study in 2008 put the number of brain-injured troops at more than 320,000, and that was two years before a massive surge in improvised explosive device attacks in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20130916\/PC16\/130919580\/1177\/a-marine-survives-a-bombing-mission-without-visible-injuries-but-the-invisible-trauma-left-lasting-scars\">Read it all<\/a> from the front page of the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, [Marine Sargeant Dana] King has no visible scars from his time in combat. But his injuries are as real as any veteran hit by shrapnel. Instead of losing a limb, King lost functions in his brain that help him<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40097\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,175,143,168,104,98,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}