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...medical care, disability benefits, or both. According to Bilmes, the nation’s costs of fulfilling its obligations to these veterans could run between 300 and 700 billion dollars over the next four decades.Bilmes said the problem can be explained statistically. While the United States recently counted its 3000th fatality in the war on terror, nearly 16 times that many have suffered non-mortal wounds. By contrast, the ratio of those wounded to those killed during the Vietnam War was 2.6:1, and the two World Wars saw less than two men wounded for every fatality. The statistical swing...