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You know, you REALLY have to wonder how anyone who served in the US military up through the 1970s ever came out of basic training without severe hearing damage.
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My grandfather was partially deaf in both ears, and suffered from tinnitus after serving in WWII. Even with large hearing aids in both ears he was very hard of hearing. As if the gunfire wasn't bad enough for the ears, his platoon was being moved out of an abandoned building they were sleeping in over night, as they were leaving and another platoon was being moved in a time bomb went off and destroyed his hearing, as well as sadly killing everyone inside the building. As if PTSD wasn't bad enough for him the ringing made things worse, and as a result for the first year back in the states he couldn't sleep and rode the subway through all hours of the night.