"We treat hearing loss as an inevitable cost of war. It shouldn’t be. "- The Washington Post

"Hundreds of thousands of troops have come back with at least moderate hearing loss, and the nature of the injury can often be degenerative. Veterans Affairs pays out more than a billion dollars a year on disability payments for severe hearing loss, and..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/04/12/we-treat-hearing-loss-as-an-inevitable-cost-of-war-it-shouldnt-be/

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