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Permalink Reply by Kent Draper on November 6, 2009 at 12:37pm

Thanks for being an advocate. There are many of us who left Vietnam without a scratch, but will die as a result of just being there.

KentD

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Permalink Reply by Kathe L Gaarde on November 6, 2009 at 5:29pm

Thanks Kent, I am an AO widow and will continue the fight welcome to Dryhootch.
Kathe

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Permalink Reply by paul peck on November 1, 2010 at 8:40am

My Uncle served in the Navy during Viet Nam, delivering supplies off shore where helicopters came to transport the cargo off the ships. In the years that followed in civillian life, my aunt and uncle had a hard time to have a child. Soon after my cousin Andy was born, he contracted leukemia. My grandmother always thought that agent orange had something to do with my cousin being sick. My Grandmother was not an educated woman, having worked in the factories and not finishing school until she was much much older. My uncle insisted he loaded helicopters at sea and was never in the bush, and besides, even if he was exposed from a helicopter that was not properly decontaminated, he did not get sick, so why should his child? The week my cousin died, I read this in Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=agent-orange-linke...

I also learned that Dioxane seems to mimic male sex hormones and is often passed to offspring in many species.

I do not believe there is any legal recourse for my family having lost my uncle and cousin. I do not seek any. The effects of Dioxane passing from a male to an offspring is not considered by current policy.

Since my cousins passing, I have come to believe that he was a casualty of war that ended years before he was born. The studies show that there are other families of veterans who have had the same experiences as my family had....

I write to express solidarity with such families.

thank you

paul peck.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Frostman on November 10, 2010 at 11:41pm

At a Veterans reunion two years ago, eight of us were dicussing problems we were having. All eight of us were having similar extreme eye problems. Have you heard anything such as this ?

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Permalink Reply by Kent Draper on November 11, 2010 at 4:29pm

For anyone who served in Vietnam and thinks they have a health issue tied to Agent Orange they need to spend some time here - http://www.vva.org/agent_orange.html. Vietnam Veterans of America has been financing research and court battles to get many of the diseases to be considered Presumpetive.

For many Navy vets who served in the waters of the South China Sea it's a different story. The court battles seem to have just started. The "Blue Water Navy" orginization has been fighting this battle for years - http://www.bluewaternavy.org/

This is a very current status of the fight for medical benefits for Navy Vets:
http://www.nvlsp.org/Information/ArticleLibrary/AgentOrange/AO-VABa...

Good Health

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