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WAR IN IRAQ

BATTLE SCARS

Killing may take toll on soldiers

Trauma experts say returning troops may be forever changed by warfare

By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA Associated Press

Sunday, April 20, 2003

The beefy Army drill sergeant has been a soldier since he was a teenager. Now 35, he was eager to go to war with the 3rd Infantry Division and do for real what he had been teaching recruits. But after at least five confirmed kills, he discovered combat was different than he had expected.

"I didn't think it would be like this, killing people," Staff Sgt. Thomas Slago reflected, not long after squeezing the trigger on his assault rifle to stop an approaching Iraqi guerrilla, then watching the gruesome ...

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