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Parker. a bioengineer at harvard what happens to be an explosives expert. he's done two tours of duty in afghanistan. >> you know, i've got about 16 years in the infantry in the army, so i know a little bit about what happens when things blow up. >> reporter: back home he began to study how an explosion rattles the brain and can damage it permanently. >> what happens when the brain gets hit by a blast wave and it slams up against the inside of the skull. >> reporter: with colleagues at northeastern university he's found ingenuous ways to simulate the mechanics of the injury. >> you can imagine...

hopeful age. >> the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won and we stand today on the edge of a new frontier. >> president john f. kennedy, jfk, and then there was bobby. >> we to make an effort to understand and get beyond difficult times. >> and teddy, the third to reach the u.s. senate. >> too many of our senior citizens are being forced to choose between neglecting their ailments. >> at home there was ted and his wife joan. teddy, jr., kara, and patrick, who was the youngest by six years. it was july of 1967, patrick's birth made headlines. just five days old ...

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Complex in eastern afghanistan in nangarhar province. the complex, itself, was large, but there was also a relatively extensive tunnel system underneath the complex over on the ground. it was a largely sand-built tunnel. so the reason that this munition, this bomb was used, is because it doesn't necessarily penetrate, it's not what they call a bunker buster, but when it strikes a target, it lets off a blast wave or a shockwave, so that wave would penetrate down into those tunnels and bring them down. they were built of sand and dirt. so it's able to collapse them without creating a large blast...

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