An advocacy group has asked the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs to issue rules recognizing the presumption of Agent Orange exposure to
veterans who served on Guam during and after the Vietnam War, so they could
receive medical help.
If approved, it could also open the door for Guam residents
to seek medical help for the same reasons.
This comes exactly a year after the Louisiana-based
Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. sent Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie a
similar rule-making request, without getting a substantive response.
"Unfortunately, many of these veterans are sick and
dying. Time is certainly of the essence," attorney John B. Wells, director
of litigation for the Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc., wrote in a Dec. 3 letter
to Wilkie.
Wells, a retired U.S. Navy commander, also represents a
group of veterans who call themselves the Agent Orange Survivors of Guam.
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