MEDICAL HOLD CONDITIONS AT FORT KNOX TO GO WITH STORY BY MARK BENJAMIN
A bed is cramped into a make shift area where U.S. National Guardsman on medical hold live at Fort Knox on October 28, 2003. Many veterans of the war in Iraq have complained that they have not received proper or timely medical treatment while there. .(UPI/Michael Kleinfeld)
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