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Aaron Glantz

‘How many American troops should die for this?’: veterans split on war with Iran

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Smoke rises from the site of airstrikes in a central area of Tehran on 6 March. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images

Nearly two decades after his second tour, Nathan Wendland is still troubled by his experiences in Iraq.

Like 700,000 other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the 46-year-old former US army staff sergeant receives compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder. Last January, Wendland checked himself into a psychiatric emergency room because he was worried he would kill himself. He was on the mend, but then Donald Trump ordered a sustained campaign of airstrikes on Iran. All those memories came flooding back.

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