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On an August day last year, a resident of the Wisconsin Veterans Home at Union Grove sat in their room building a bird house. Then another resident entered the room and started hitting them on the head with a cane.
The beaten resident was taken to a hospital and diagnosed with traumatic brain injury. A month earlier, the resident with the cane had punched another person at the veterans home in the head and mouth, giving them a bloody lip…