Virtual Reality Returns Soldiers to Iraq

August 3, 2007 By MELANTHIA MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Staff Sgt. Jeff Ebert's entire body flinches as a roadside bomb explodes near his vehicle. Smoke obscures his view. Gunfire rattles around him.

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