$10M Omaha residential facility for combat-maimed vets aims to heal wounds medicine can’t

By: Cindy Gonzalez

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: September 12, 2026

Words: 1,332

Last Updated: 6 days, 4 hours ago

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OMAHA — The scene was seared into John Folsom’s mind.

On a visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital around 2010, he met a young soldier severely brain-damaged by a war device that exploded near his head during a mission in Iraq.

The patient’s mom was at his bedside, holding her son’s hand. He was unable to speak, but his eyes seemed to light up when a guitarist started to serenade a familiar tune, recalled Folsom, a …

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