Veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness won a 30-year war for recognition

Veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness won a 30-year war for recognition

For three decades, the official word on Gulf War Illness (GWI) was a collective shrug from the Department of Defense. When you came home from Kuwait or Iraq in ’91 with a brain that felt like it was wrapped in a wet woobie, a stomach that digested food harder than a Sarlac Pit, and joints that cracked like chemlights every time you climbed out of a chair, the medical records usually just called it “undiagnosed.”It was an unexpected visitor, a sh…