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Originally Posted by Cassawary
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It depends on what you claim. Mental stuff is pretty ironclad but you can claim blownout ear drums and get a bump too. Knees and back are easily accepted.
Not trying to take a dim view of it. Lawyer will know how to navigate your case.
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I probably won't ever do it, but one of my friends lost hearing in both of his ears from a roadside bomb going off during my first deployment. I actually thought he was faking, I really did... he had to wear these goofy hearing aid things.. which looked weird on a 19 year old.
I talked to him for the first time in 15 years recently on facebook and asked him if he still had to wear those things... implying that maybe he healed over time (because again, i always thought he was faking)... turns out he's now completely deaf and wasn't faking after all. I feel kind of bad, but I never outwardly accused him of faking... even though I think several of us talked about it behind his back and how it was bullshit that he got a purple heart for that... (someone else died in the explosion, so we saw it as insulting to that person)..