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The Tragedy of Our 'Disappeared' Veterans

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Tragedy of Our 'Disappeared' Veterans By Penny Coleman, AlterNet Posted on August 12, 2009, Printed on September 9, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/140828/ Wayne McMahon was busted on gun charges six months after he got out of the Marines. He was jumped by a gang of kids in his hometown of Albany, N.Y. , and he went for the assault rifle he kept in the back of his SUV. He's serving "three flat, with two years of post-release" at Groveland Prison in upstate New York. Maybe it's tempting to write McMahon off as just a screwed-up person who made the kinds of mistakes that should have landed him in jail, but maybe that's because his injuries don't show on the outside. Unlike physical injuries, psychiatric injuries are invisible; the burden of proof lands on the soldier (or sailor or Marine), and such injuries are easy for the public to deny...continue to full post

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