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From: New Haven Register
Date: 20070610
Author:Michael Gannon

By Michael Gannon Register Staff

NEW HAVEN -- In novels such as "Kim" and "The Man Who Would be King," Rudyard Kipling wrote about the rigors and horrors of British military campaigns in the crossroad of Central Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

More than 100 years later, U.S. soldiers are serving in and returning from places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of them have found a crossroad of their own at the Hospital of Saint Raphael.

"I've run into a lot of reservists here," said Rick Scavetta, the hospital's head of media affairs who has served in the Middle East both as ...

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