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“It was beyond traumatic. It’s been less than a week, but I still have moments where I relive what I saw, and I can hear the crying,” he said.

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Lew, still experiencing traumatic flashbacks from his combat experience, likes to take things slow and easy: “Waiting is an art form.”

"For a person to see a photograph or hear there's a photograph of their loved one, it is so traumatic," she said.

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In the coming decades, he finds himself caught between his traumatic past and growing appetite for prestige.

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She said preliminary investigations suggested Mr Silcox died "due to a traumatic brain injury due to a fall, skull fractures and skull lacerations".

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