“The willingness with
which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified,
shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier
wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.” — George Washington
Diabetes, Hodgkin’s disease, chronic B-cell leukemias,
ischemic heart disease, chloracne, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
prostate cancer, respiratory cancer, and soft-tissue sarcomas are just of few
of the health challenges Vietnam veterans are facing. Each of them has a direct
link to exposure to Agent Orange/dioxin.
Most Vietnam veterans are in their mid-60’s and older, and
there are those among us who have been fighting these diseases for years —
sometimes decades. After all these years and study after study and endless
hearings, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs refuses to acknowledge the science
that shows the route between Agent Orange exposure and these diseases. There
has been no legitimate scientific dispute of the connection between exposure to
the dioxin in Agent Orange, and a long and ever-expanding list of medical conditions.
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