Roth Brothers

Since the Washington Post's excellent series on conditions at Walter Reed, other publications have jumped on the wounded-soldier beat. Today's crop includes Salon on injured troops being sent back into combat and the NYT on the military health-care system's scramble to deal with the influx of brain-damage cases: "Largely because of the improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Iraq, traumatic brain injury has become a signature wound of this war."