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Article: Head wound in Iraq ends Army career, leaves soldier lost, disabled.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 17, 2004
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Byline: Drew Brown
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. _ Kevin Hannah doesn't sleep much these days. Two or three hours are about as much as he gets. When he does sleep, he suffers frequent nightmares.
When he's awake, he alternates between restlessness, depression and anxiety. His future, once bright, now seems a blank. He doesn't know what to do with his life anymore.
"It's kind of a day-to-day thing," says the 23-year-old former Army sergeant, who was wounded in Iraq last year. "Some days are better than others."
A year ago, Hannah was nearly one-third of the way through a promising Army career. But a gunman at a traffic checkpoint in Baghdad last ...