US vets

Video: Counting the cost of war

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 US veterans count the cost of war 
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On Veterans Day there have been ceremonies held across the US to honour the dead and wounded of its wars.

But with US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan there has been a particular focus on veterans of those conflicts – who now number almost one and a half million men and women.

President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to improve the government’s care for veterans.

But as Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports, it will not be cheap.

 
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