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02-Chaplain Brian M. Swain comforts Mrs. Marymal Dryden

03-Interment of Lieutenant Charles W. Dryden

04-Honor Guard soldier secures Lieutenant Colonel Dryden's casket

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06-Mrs. Marymal Dryden is greeted

07-Janet Langhart Cohen and Mrs. Marymal Dryden.

08-Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Mrs. Marymal Dryden

09-Eric Dryden speaks

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Army Fights Hearing Loss in Soldiers


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Staff Sgt. Chris Mountjoy couldn't hear for three days after the mortar round screamed into his camp and exploded 15 feet from him. The open door of a Humvee saved him from the shrapnel, but a shock wave blew him 30 feet into a wall, perforating his ear drums.

His hearing came back, but only partially.

Now, more than two years later, the 27-year-old who loved being in the infantry spends his days behind a desk at the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Fort Carson, Colorado, where he was reassigned because of his hearing loss and a traumatic brain injury from the blast. Hearing aids help him, but they're not perfect. He seldom lets his two young children play in a different room because he cannot hear if something were to happen. He avoids loud restaurants, where background noise blots out dinner conversation with his wife.

Mountjoy isn't alone in his quiet world. A cacophony of roadside bombs, machine guns and heavy equipment is wreaking havoc on the hearing of Soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Recruiters see more interest from teenagers:

Recruiters pitch the Army as the place to find adventure, receive cash bonuses and pay for college. But with more than 4,100 American military personnel killed in Iraq, it's not always an easy sell. However, the Army's pitch is indeed resonating with young men and women all over the country. According to a Pentagon survey that questioned 3,304 people between 16 and 21 years old, the percentage of young people who said they would probably join the military increased to 11 percent in the first half of 2008 from 9 percent the previous year. Recruiters are hopeful that with the increase in interest they can become more selective in who they admit to the ranks. It is still too early to draw any firm conclusions on whether this year's recruiting will equal or surpass last year's; so only time will tell.

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