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Anthony Wagner was in his early 20s when he spent a violent year in Iraq with the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division. He returned home with a mild brain injury, a propensity for extreme substance abuse and a case of post-traumatic stress disorder. He would spend the rest of his life battling those demons, finding some comfort in political activism. He joined the Occupy movement, but one day after marching with other veterans in New York, Wagner, 28, died of a suspected drug overdose. To some of his friends and family members, though, the true cause of his death was Iraq.
