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A woman leans against a brick railing and looks into the distance.

"That was on Friday. Monday, he died by suicide."

The gravestone of Peter Cafe. Reads: Resting in peace. Peter Jon Cafe. Soldier, mentor, leader, golfer, friend.

A man in a military beret holds a baby on one side, with a woman on his other side. They all smile.

"I wish in that moment I had had clarity to say, 'Someone needs his brain. We need to see what's in it, what's going on, and actually analyse it and help other people.'"

"People are taking the piss who think shooting a rocket off your shoulder isn't going to produce some kind of brain injury,"
he said.

Soldiers wearing protective gear stand in front of a door with an explosion going off.

A woman sits in a lab and looks up past the camera.

"There's something about the blast wave injury that causes these two parts of the brain to slide against each other and cause scarring,"
she said.

A man in military uniform stands in a rock pool, with grey skies behind him.

A woman hugs a man as they stand on the rocks by the sea.

A man in a military uniform looks past the camera in an official portrait.

A man in camoflauge army gear sits with his weapon ready at his hip in arid terrain.

"I realised we were hurting our soldiers,"
he said.

A blast gauge on the back of the helmet of a soldier, highlighted with a yellow line.

"The sad truth is that Australia is far behind … with little research or action being taken on this critical issue,"
he said.

A man and a woman sit on rocks by the sea, with their arms intertwined.

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