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Breaking on Walter Reed
Injured Troops Request Extended Tours To Avoid Being Sent To Walter Reed
March 26, 2007 | Issue 43•13
BAGHDAD—Many injured U.S. troops are actively lobbying for an additional six months of combat duty in Iraq to avoid returning to the United States to be treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
"I've heard too many horror stories to go back to that hellhole" said Marine Pfc. Jon Hillman, 22, who suffered severe injuries in a roadside bombing last week. "I'm perfectly happy in Iraq, where at least I know that the people wearing the same uniforms as me aren't going to put my life at risk for no reason. Who knows what kind of inhumane acts I'd see there, halfway around the word."
Hillman added that he was hoping to be sent back out to patrol Iraq's streets soon, as he did not know how much longer he could fool the medical officers at the Green Zone hospital into believing he still had both of his legs.
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It's a good thing you had an "incomplete" attribution at the top. If I'd seen "The Onion" first I'd have been a little better prepared for the punch line. Peregrino 
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