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Originally Posted by Martin Bull
Many suffered hearing loss in later years and were unable to benefit from the hearing-aid technology which is available today. In the 1970s I worked with an 8th Army veteran who was almost totally deaf in his right ear.
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My wife's grandfather had a grenade go off in close priximity to his head (fortunately there as a large piece of steel between him and the blast.) He had permanent hearing loss from it that he knew it at the time. To get it checked out and compensated for would have required another 1-2 months of active duty at an Army hospital and we wanted to get home so badly, he kept his mouth shut and got on the train.