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Vets Group Says Move Forward Fast on Agent Orange Presumptives
- Veterans for Common Sense thanks VA Secretary Shinseki for moving forward with presumptives for Vietnam War veterans -
Veterans for Common Sense strongly supports laws and regulations that establish what are called “presumptives,” as this means long-awaited benefits for our Vietnam War veterans sick due to Agent Orange poisoning.
Presumptives will be the subject of a major Senate hearing this Thursday. The facts show DoD failed to monitor who was exposed to how much Agent Orange and for how long during the Vietnam War. DoD blocked medical research to avoid providing healthcare or disability benefits in what can only be called shocking and callous behavior.
After 40 years, the scientific evidence now clearly associates serious and fatal conditions (such a prostate cancer) with Agent Orange exposure. The failure of the military to keep track of what happened to our troops in Vietnam is not an excuse to deny payments to our veterans today, even when a few veterans may have contracted the condition due to age.
VCS thanks VA Secretary Shinseki for moving forward with presumptives for Vietnam War veterans. We hope he further clarifies the rules for Blue Water Navy veterans, too.
Presumptives should also be used for the 250,000 sick Gulf War veterans remaining ill from exposure to dozens of toxins as well as for our new Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans sick after exposure to poisons at toxic burn pits.
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Posted by Yanira Farray on Sep 21 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Benefits, Vet News, Veterans Affairs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Until recently the VA would not admit I was dealing with PTSD. It took 42 years to begin to be compensated. Now there appears to be a reason for the TIA I recently experienced, accompanied with erratic heart beat, hypertension, low heart beat count. All apparently caused by agent orange, ischemic heart disease.
Thank you for your service Al. I know EXACTLY where you’re coming from.
You’ll be fine, thanks to the VA medical people and no thanks to VBA bureaucraps.
I have an acquaintance in my city who has three HARD EARNED purple hearts in Nam. It took him 33 years for it to be acknowledged by the incompetent bureaucraps.
I have another acquaintance here in Texas (I was hospitalized with him recently) who first served in Nam, then rather than come back to the negative U.S. asked for and got a transfer to the Korean DMZ. He got sprayed heavily in Nam, but he said (and I agree) the spraying was much heavier in Korea than even in Nam.
T.V.
OMG…I can’t believe these bastards. I had a friend die at 23 because of cancer caused from AO. We just buried his dad at the age of 94 years old and his mom is still alive. All his brothers are alive. I live in a small town and I have seen a lot of my Viet Nam Veterans friends die one after the other. Their siblings are still alive. We honor the ones who died in action, which we all should, they gave their all. All others to them have died of natural causes. It looks like they are getting stronger, but they can’t beat our votes.
Gary Owen, Randy.
The plan for decades has been to deny until we die. Most of the denials are coming from yellow-backed cowards who do nothing but whine and snivel for our help if they feel in the least threatened.
But you are absolutely right. They can’t beat our votes.
T.V. First Cav Vet.
U.S.S paul revere carried agent orange on part of our cargo and now i have diabetes for Around and being on the waters of vietnam war From 1972-1973
The Tin Can I was on steamed up Vietnamese rivers several times…..we drank the river water, after ‘purification’ of course.
The Air America complex at Udorn RTAFB in 1967 was the perfect hiding place for Agent Orange and I used to direct Ranch Hand C-123′s to there regularly. Wasn’t that a convenient way to alleviate the government from any future liability?
I recently buried a friend who died from Agebt Orange, now after 41years the VA has exposed that what the army said about my swelling of my legs<(a lymphadtic disroder is no mystery, it's caused by Agent Orange. My friend who die was turned down several times by the bastard VA, he only lived a year after finally being diagnosised with Agent orange by the Cleveland Regional Office, which is the most corrupt and disoganised VA I have seen in 41 years of fighting the VA.
I know now what Shinseki has planned for us Vietnam Vets, bury us it's cheaper that treating us and in mosrt cases there is no treatment but slow death.
I am a viet nam veteran that has been exposed to agent orange dixon, This hearing is long overdue and it should not take an act of congress to prove what was already known when this poison was being sprayed.Why is the viet nam veteran being and has been treated so unfairly by the VA and DOD ? we served, we fought, and we died for this country to remain free, but yet we get shit on. we open the doors for the new age veteran( like then we are GRUNTS). I hope I don’t relieve of my pains and complications before this bill is passed.