Vietnam and Agent Orange Facts. Demand for military Agent Orange resulted in higher levels of dioxin contamination than in the 2,4,5-T produced for civilian applications in the U.S. As noted in the above chart.. The U.S. Air Force military operation Ranch Hand began spraying Agent Orange on areas of South Vietnam in August 1965 (though it was used prior to this date).. The US Air Force Herb Tapes accounted for just over 8 million gallons of the herbicides used in South Vietnam.. 18 million gallons of Agent Orange were reported to have been used in South Vietnam.. Agent Orange caused Vietnamese farmers to lose about 70% of their crops. (One of the goals for using herbicides was to deprive the enemy of food).. 6,250+ square miles of South Vietnam can not be farmed because of defoliation. This is still true more than 30 years later.. A C-123 (Provider) could dump 11,000 lbs. of Agent Orange over 300 acres in four minutes.. Brief History of Agent Orange. In the early years of WWII, a grant was ...

The Veterans Administration recently announced that it would extend the presumption of Agent Orange exposure to Blue Water Navy veterans for the first time, according to a press release on the Department of Veterans Affairs website. These veterans include those who served offshore of the Republic of Vietnam between Jan. 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, no more than twelve nautical miles seaward of demarcation line between Vietnam and Cambodia. This new ruling is estimated to affect between 420,000 and 560,000 Vietnam-era veterans.. Previously, access to funds for aid those suffering from Agent Orange exposure were limited to certain Navy veterans, who had to go to extra effort to prove their medical conditions were a result of being exposed to the toxic defoliant. However, with this new policy change, these veterans will have a legal presumption of Agent Orange exposure and will be able to access the related benefits without needing to go to extra lengths to prove that exposure.. Conditions caused by ...

1961-1971: Agent Orange was a mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D and had very high concentrations of dioxin. Agent Orange was by far the most widely used of the so-called Rainbow Herbicides employed in the Herbicidal Warfare program as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. Monsanto became one of 10-36 producers of Agent Orange for US Military operations in Vietnam. Dow Chemical and Monsanto were the two largest producers of Agent Orange for the U.S. military. The Agent Orange produced by Monsanto had dioxin levels many times higher than that produced by Dow Chemicals, the other major supplier of Agent Orange to Vietnam. This made Monsanto the key defendant in the lawsuit brought by Vietnam War veterans in the United States, who faced an array of debilitating symptoms attributable to Agent Orange exposure. Agent Orange is later linked to various health problems, including cancer. U.S. Vietnam War veterans have suffered from a host of debilitating symptoms attributable to Agent Orange exposure. Agent ...

Todays post from publichealth.va.gov (see link below) is a summary of the US governments final acknowledgement of the neuropathic effects of agent orange in war situations (amongst other things such as birth defects). Agent orange and other herbicides can cause nerve damage and many veterans of wars in Korea and Vietnam (as well as local populations) have neuropathic problems as a result of exposure. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimated that up to a million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange. The US government has consistently challenged these figures but had to face the facts when it came down to their own servicemen, having clear and obvious nerve damage problems as a result of agent orange and other defoliants. You may well have seen other articles on the internet relating to agent orange and neuropathy and wondered what link there was to the neuropathy that were all familiar with; this short official article puts it in a nutshell. Many prominent neuropathy ...

The war in Vietnam resulted in the deaths of more than 58,000 Americans and more than 3 million Vietnamese. Twenty years ago, the United States and Vietnam normalized diplomatic relations in an effort to put the terrible legacy of the war behind them. But for the survivors-both Vietnamese and American-the war continues. About 5 million Vietnamese and many U.S. and allied soldiers were exposed to the toxic chemical dioxin from the spraying of Agent Orange. Many of them and their progeny continue to suffer its poisonous effects.. Agent Orange was a chemical, herbicidal weapon sprayed over 12 percent of Vietnam by the U.S. military from 1961 to 1971. The dioxin present in Agent Orange is one of the most toxic chemicals known to humanity.. Those exposed to Agent Orange during the war often have children and grandchildren with serious illnesses and disabilities. The international scientific community has identified an association between exposure to Agent Orange and some forms of cancers, ...

Synonyms for Agent Orange in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for Agent Orange. 4 words related to Agent Orange: dioxin, herbicide, weed killer, weedkiller. What are synonyms for Agent Orange?

Veterans who may qualify for Agent Orange presumption include those who were exposed based on duty or visitation in Vietnam or on its inland waterways between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975; exposed along the demilitarized zone in Korea between April 1, 1968, and August 31, 1971; or exposed due to herbicide tests and storage at military bases within and outside of the United States. Check out the Agent Orange Fast Track web site if you think you may be affected by the diseases listed above as a result of Agent Orange exposure. ...

The Agent Orange Quilt of Tears was displayed at the historic California Building at Idlewild Park Saturday after the Patches Walk, which raises awareness of veterans issues and funds for Agent Orange Victims & Widows, Veterans Guest House in Reno, Wounded Warrior Project and the Pat Tillman Foundation ...

Monsanto began in 1901. Its first product was saccharin, made from toluene and petroleum. In 1977, the FDA moved to ban the use of saccharin in prepared foods after testing showed that it could cause bladder cancer. Congress rejected the FDAs request and instead agreed that manufacturers would provide health warnings on their packaging. In the 1920s, Monsanto began producing pesticides and herbicides, including what came to be known of as Agent Orange. Agent Orange is a defoliant made from 2,4-D and 2,4-T. It was used extensively in Vietnam by the US armed forces during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Veterans of America lists at least fifty illnesses and diseases and nearly twenty separate birth defects connected to exposure to Agent Orange. Agent Orange is the gift that keeps on giving, as to this day, children in Vietnam are born with ghastly birth defects and nervous disorders. During the 1930s, Monsanto began manufacturing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PCBs are so toxic that they were ...

The related question shines some fascinating light on the subject. It looks like theres a good chance that Agent Orange isnt to blame in this case. Instead, it appears to be an issue of dioxin contaminating the Agent Orange. Likewise, Monsanto produced less than half of the Agent Orange used... but their dioxin contamination level was quite a bit higher than anyone elses, to the point where they were producing well more than half the contaminate. So... technically Agent Orange wasnt to blame, but the substance produced and sold by Monsanto as Agent Orange was. - Ben Barden Sep 8 17 at 19:38 ...

Response:. Congratulations. You have unearthed a primary cause of symptoms you are currently experiencing. Research definitively confirms that exposure to agent orange (which can be from service in Vietnam or through exposure to pesticide applications on farms) does significant damage to the neurological system. Symptoms of Parkinsons are a likely outcome.. Even the VA now recognizes the compelling evidence on agent orange and - as you note in your letter - now offer benefits to veterans who were exposed. Once the agent orange toxin has been cleared from your body (and there may be other toxins as well) and damage to your delicate neurological system repaired - your state of health will improve dramatically.. A consultation with a nutritionist is an excellent choice. Detox diets can help your body detox. I would also recommend that you pursue this further by exploring various detox protocols that will facilitate the release of the agent orange toxin in your body. Be circumspect in the choices ...

Both men are members of the Agent Orange Association of Canada B.C. chapter, and will join victims, social activists and scientists from various countries at the conference Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 8-9) in Hanoi, marking the 50th anniversary of the first spraying of Agent Orange by U.S. forces in Vietnam ...

The first U.S. combat troops didnt arrive in Vietnam until March 1965, but by then the effort to defoliate the jungle was well under way. Agent Orange was first sprayed in August 1961. President Kennedy had authorized the use of herbicides in December 1961, and the U.S. Air Force began flying Operation Ranch Hand missions the following month.. Operation Ranch Hand (part of a larger program known as Trail Dust) was designed to defoliate areas used by the enemy as cover for ambushes, as well as to destroy enemy subsistence crops. The chemical weapons used were known as Rainbow Herbicides - Agent White, Agent Purple, Agent Blue, Agent Pink, Agent Green, and Agent Orange - named for the colored bands painted on their respective storage drums. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of these herbicides in Vietnam, eastern Laos, and parts of Cambodia, usually from helicopters or low-flying aircraft, but sometimes from backpacks, boats, and trucks.. Agent Orange alone ...

Exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War was widespread and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. A continuing concern of veterans is the possibility that exposure to the dioxin-containing herbicide might induce adverse reproductive outcomes. We sought to assess whether exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam was associated with changes in DNA methylation in sperm in a subset of Vietnam veterans who participated in the Air Force Health Study (AFHS). We studied 37 members of the AFHS chosen to have no, low, medium or high exposure to Agent Orange, based upon serum dioxin levels obtained during a series of examinations. DNA from stored semen was extracted and DNA methylation assessed on the Illumina 450 K platform. Initial epigenome-wide analysis returned no loci that survived control for false discovery. However, the TEAD3 gene had four different CpG sites that showed loss of DNA methylation associated with dioxin exposure. Analysis assessing regional DNA methylation

During the Vietnam War, millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed across regions of the country to destroy forest cover used by guerillas. A photo essay from Slate: On this day in 1984, a $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans, who argued that exposure to AO had caused various cancers, birth defects, and other chronic diseases. The settlement came to government benefits of about $1,500 a month until 1997. Yet many Vietnamese victims who also suffer greatly have received nothing from the United States since the end of the war. Some images are quite graphic and not something you want to look at while eating lunch or possibly at work. I know weve done Agent Orange before ( here and here), but this collection of images is rather intense ...

Test our Veterans for Agent Orange known diseases and give them a chance for treatment. I saw first hand the abject pain and suffering that AL amyloidosis causes. I took care of my dear husband Paul , a Vietnam veteran, until his death in 2016. He put all his trust in the Veterans Administration doctors. Paul was never diagnosed by his doctors at the VA. He was also never tested for this disease that is on the list of presumptive diseases caused by agent orange exposure. Had he been tested he still would have been terminal. He could have, however, been treated properly and had a better quality of and extension of life. I have taken care of both my parents in their last days of cancer and heart failure. I can tell you that AL amyloidosis is far more ravaging than any cancer I have been unfortunate enough to witness. How many other veterans have this disease, suffer, and die without a diagnosis? My husband, thank God, was diagnosed two weeks before he passed away. Not by his doctors at the VA, ...

I am fortunate to be treated by Dr. Mark Garzotto, who is on staff at both the Portland VA Hospital and the Oregon Health Sciences University. Yesterday, in the afterglow of yet another biopsy, he shared with me his recent article on prostate cancer and Agent Orange. Dr. Garzotto yesterday confirmed he makes no distinction between Vietnam War veterans and those otherwise exposed to Agent Orange! ...

I see VAs adamant refusal to recognize the claims of the aircrews who flew in C-123K aircraft post-Vietnam as just another manifestation of the historic bureaucratic foot-dragging that has been typical these last thirty-odd years. The VA has fought treating service members exposed to Agent Orange at every step of the way, but I fear we have yet to see the end of the claims resulting from this powerful toxin. In the spring and summer of 1972, the aircrews from my helicopter detachment were in Da Nang at least every third day. Out of approximately a dozen pilots, I know of one with diabetes, another with prostate cancer and one with heart disease. These diseases are on the list of illnesses attributable to Agent Orange. Unfortunately, I havent been in contact with the remaining aircrew personnel in my unit and there could certainly be more illnesses ...

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The VA just recently added some U.S. Navy ships to the list where presumptive exposure to Agent Orange is recognized during the Vietnam War. If you have already submitted a claim for disability due to the exposure while serving on board any of these ships, then the date of any approved disabilit ...

Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.. A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. The herbicides used to produce Agent Orange were later discovered to be contaminated with 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, an extremely toxic dioxin compound. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon (200 L) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called Rainbow Herbicides.[1]. During the Vietnam war, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 20,000,000 US gallons (80,000,000 L) of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.[2] The programs goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, ...

Today, three million Vietnamese suffer the effects of chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War. The deadliest, Agent Orange, disabled and sickened soldiers, civilians and several generations of their offspring on two continents. We seek to organize justice as the Vietnamese Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign. Read more and join us.

In 2017, Reality Winner, a 25-year-old Air Force veteran and intelligence contractor was arrested for leaking confirmation of 2016 Russian election meddling to The Intercept; Winner seems to have been motivated by the same outrage that had animated Ed Snowden four years earlier: watching her bosses lie about matters of national interest. Winner is a…

By Fall 2017 M-VETS Student-Advisor Lindsey Kimmitt. Agent Orange as a War Tactic. Chemical defoliants were first used as a war tactic in the 1950s, when British planes sprayed Malayan jungles during the Malayan Emergency, stripping trees bare, depriving communist guerrillas of cover, and destroying crops that insurgents relied on for food.[1] A decade later, then-South Vietnam President Ngo Dihn Diem asked the United States to conduct aerial herbicide spraying to aid in their long struggle against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese fighters.[2] Citing the use of herbicides by the British during the Malayan Emergency as precedent, then-President John F. Kennedy authorized the start of the U.S. Air Forces herbicide program in Vietnam.[3]. During the Vietnam War, United States military planes sprayed approximately 20 million gallons of herbicides in Vietnam and surrounding areas.[4] Code-named Ranch Hand, this operation reached its peak from 1967 to 1969.[5] Of all the chemical defoliants-referred to ...

U.S. Senate) - Vietnam veterans suffering from diseases associated with exposure to Agent Orange are one step closer to receiving critical care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) following sustained efforts from U.S. Senator Jon Tester to include his bipartisan legislation in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - a must-pass annual defense bill.. Tester took to the Senate floor earlier today to urge his colleagues to support his amendment which would expand VAs list of medical conditions associated with exposure to Agent Orange to include Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism, and Parkinsonism-health conditions that each meet the historical standard for being added to the presumptive list for service-connection as it relates to Agent Orange exposure.. This is a historic win for thousands of Vietnam veterans who have been suffering from illnesses after being exposed to Agent Orange, but who have been unjustly denied benefits for decades, said Tester, Ranking Member of ...

UAT 0- Agent Orange was a potent herbicide and defoliant used in large quantities during the Vietnam War. Learn about Agent Orange and its terrible legacy.

U.S. planes spray the defoliant Agent Orange over southern Vietnam in 1966 (Photo: AP) Latest studies on Agent Orange/dioxin have proved its long-lasting effects on human health and the environment, a Vietnamese doctor has said. Assistant Professor Doctor Nguyen Van Tuong of the Hanoi Medical University said a recent study by medical researchers…

The toxicity of Agent Orange is generally attributed to its dioxin contaminants. Though 2,4-5-T (banned since 1978) is the worse of the two chemicals, 2,4-D exposure has independently been associated with the deadly immune system cancer non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Parkinsons disease, hepatitis, lower sperm counts, and birth defects in the children of exposed applicators. 2,4-D is the seventh leading source of dioxin in the U.S., and this excludes dioxin emissions from factories that produce it. While dioxin levels in current 2,4-D are lower than in Agent Orange, a recent Australian study shows that todays 2,4-D contains as much dioxin as it did twenty years ago, directly contradicting industry assurances to EPA that production improvements have reduced dioxin levels ...

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Department of Veterans Affairs has begun distributing disability benefits to Vietnam Veterans who qualify for compensation for Agent Orange exposure

Article: Agent Orange: A Deadly Legacy - Fifty-one years and counting! On August 10, 1961, America began spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Operation Ranch Hand waged herbicidal warfare for 10 years.

About Agent Orange residue on airplanes used in the Vietnam War and the potential for long-term adverse health effects from the Agent Orange residue exposure.

Forty-three years later, time is running out for tens of thousands of sailors suffering from various cancers, Parkinsons disease, diabetes and heart conditions caused by Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War. For nearly a decade, VA, acting on a Bush administration directive and a punitive court decision, has severed their benefits or denied their…

Forty-three years later, time is running out for tens of thousands of sailors suffering from various cancers, Parkinsons disease, diabetes and heart conditions caused by Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War. For nearly a decade, VA, acting on a Bush administration directive and a punitive court decision, has severed their benefits or denied their…

TY - JOUR. T1 - Covariation of psychological attributes and incident coronary heart disease in U.S. Air Force veterans of the Vietnam war. AU - Boyle, Stephen H.. AU - Michalek, Joel E.. AU - Suarez, Edward C.. N1 - Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.. PY - 2006. Y1 - 2006. N2 - OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the prospective associations of hostility, anger, depression, and anxiety, alone and in combination, to incident coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS: Subjects were 2105 men who participated in the Air Force Health Study, a 20-year study designed to evaluate the effects of herbicide exposure on various health outcomes in Air Force veterans of Operation Ranch Hand. Psychological attributes were assessed in 1985 using scales constructed from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Participants were followed for an average of 15 years for evidence of ischemic heart disease (International Classification of Diseases codes ...

for Prostate Cancer December 7 2011 Vietnam Veterans of America to Hold Agent Orange Town Hall November 5th at Penn State Beaver Campus November 4 2011 Vietnam Veterans of America Joins Over 200 Organizations in Urging Congress to Reject Changes to Medicare Part D Program November 3 2011 Vietnam Veterans of America Board of Directors Approves VetProWeb for VVA s Service Officer Program August 29 2011 Fred Elliott to Serve As National Vice President of Vietnam Veterans of America August 23 2011 Dr Wayne Reynolds to Serve As National Treasurer of Vietnam Veterans of America August 23 2011 John Rowan to Serve Fourth Term As National President of Vietnam Veterans of America August 22 2011 VVA Praises Historic Settlement For Veterans Discharged with PTSD August 3 2011 Philanthropist Kenneth Fisher to Receive Award at the Vietnam Veterans of America 15th National Convention August 10 2011 Union Leader Cecil Roberts to Receive Award at the Vietnam Veterans of America 15th National Convention August 8 ...

The similarities between CLL and lymphomas which we have long known to be associated with exposure to the types of chemicals used in Agent Orange and other defoliants began to raise questions about whether CLL should be considered separately from other forms of leukemia, said study committee Chairman Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...

In the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical companies that had produced the herbicide Agent Orange, and those companies settled with US veterans out of court. Agent Orange contains dioxin, a chemical later shown to disrupt the hormone system of the body and to cause cancer. As veterans returned to the US from Vietnam, scientists further confirmed that exposure to Agent Orange caused a variety of cancers in veterans and developmental problems in the veterans children.. Format: Articles Subject: Legal, Ethics ...

In the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical companies that had produced the herbicide Agent Orange, and those companies settled with US veterans out of court. Agent Orange contains dioxin, a chemical later shown to disrupt the hormone system of the body and to cause cancer. As veterans returned to the US from Vietnam, scientists further confirmed that exposure to Agent Orange caused a variety of cancers in veterans and developmental problems in the veterans children.. Format: Articles Subject: Legal, Ethics ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL--(Marketwired - January 28, 2014) - Vietnam War veterans exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange appear to be at high risk for certain types of skin cancer, suggests a report in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery® , the official medical journal of the American Society...

There is stronger evidence of a link between the herbicide Agent Orange and bladder cancer and hypothyroidism among US military personnel.

In Re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation, 611 F. Supp. 1396 (E.D.N.Y. 1985) case opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Ed Kashi, Nguyen Thi Ly, 9, suffers from Agent Orange disabilities, Da Nang, Vietnam, 09 July 2010. Nguyen Thi Li, aged 9, who lives in the Ngu Hanh Son district of Da Nang in Vietnam, suffers from disabilities believed to be caused by the defoliating chemical Agent Orange. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.. See the film The Leaves Keep Falling.. ...

Unfortunately, in a way you are correct and in a way you are not. Monsantos Agent Orange which was promiscuously used in Vietnam as a defoliant to enable massive forest destruction is known by many vets and those families whose vets have passed on as having been the distal cause of the cancers and reproductive issues they have suffered. And the same holds true for the Vietnamese who have lived or still live in the afflicted areas. Considering the money that the government would owe so many people if they allowed an actual government study to be able to directly determine the causative factors of these issues and the poison could be directly linked?. That other studies of Agent Orange and many other such studies have failed to provide direct links as opposed to findings of probable causation both for Agent Orange and for the organophosphates - tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate due to the complexities required of the studies which require large amounts of money and ...

Sheridan suggests that litigation might spur improvements, noting that a Beijing court will for the first time hear a cae from a plaintiff seeking compensation for mercury poisoning (though its not related to lightbulb manufacturing). In other news: Fort Worth Star Telegram: 34-year-old Robert Harrell was suffocated to death when the sides of a 15-foot trench in which he was working collapsed; according to the citys assistant fire chief, the trench wall was not properly secured. (Celeste is quoted in this article and in the one preceding it, which also noted that approximately two dozen workers have died in trench collapses since the start of 2008.) Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Veterans health centers are seeing a surge in Vietnam veterans seeking help for health conditions they believe are connected to their military service, including illnesses that have been linked to Agent Orange exposure. Las Vegas Sun: After twelve construction-worker deaths a major push to address dangerous conditions on ...

1.Support justice for victims of Monsantos Agent Orange 2.Monsanto and Its Philanthropy --- --- 1.Support justice for victims of Monsantos Agent Orange TAKE ACTION: Sign the Justice for Victims of Agent Orange Petition to President Obama and Members of Congress. It can be found at http://petitiononline.com/Monsanto/petition.html

By Marjorie Cohn and Jonathan Moore. Watching the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick 18-hour series, The Vietnam War, is an emotional experience. Whether you served in the US military during the war or marched in the streets to end it, you cannot remain untouched by this documentary. The battle scenes are powerful, the stories of US veterans and Vietnamese soldiers who fought on both sides of the war compelling.. The toll in human terms caused by the war is staggering. Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.. The US Engages in Chemical Warfare. In one of its most serious omissions, the series gives short shrift to the destruction wreaked by the US militarys spraying of deadly chemical herbicides ...

Vietnam veterans with cancer. A point of information that may prove valuable to United States veterans of Vietnam. http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/ VA Agent Orange number: 800-749-8387 The above site will give you info about benefits that you may be eligible for as a result of your service. The Veterans Administration says that if you were ever on the ground in Vietnam it is presumptive that you were exposed to Agent Orange. They further state that exposure to

quote] I think buddy letters or performance reports are the only way to get that done. It seems there are many of these approved if you are willing to wait through the appeals process. Read this Citation Nr: 1729898 Decision Date: 07/27/17 Archive Date: 08/04/17 DOCKET NO. 12-28 077 ) DATE ) ) On appeal from the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Muskogee, Oklahoma THE ISSUES 1. Entitlement to service connection for type II diabetes mellitus, to include as due to exposure to herbicides. 2. Entitlement to service connection for ischemic heart disease, to include as due to exposure to herbicides. 3. Entitlement to service connection for lung cancer, to include as due to exposure to herbicides. In March 2017, written correspondence from an archivist at the Air Force Historical Research Agency was provided regarding the Veterans claim to herbicide exposure and daily morning reports. The archivist stated that in June 1966, the United States Air Force ceased using morning reports, so ...

Col Richardson has suffered with severe neuropathy for over 45 years. A 27 year military veteran and veteran of the Vietnam War, he was diagnosed with a progressive chronic peripheral neuropathy resulting in severe disability. This diagnosis has been confirmed as due to exposure to Agent Orange. It was not until 2010, 42 years after his exposure to Agent Orange, that his diagnosis was recognized by Veterans Affairs as service connected. ...

The groundwork for the rise of American companies and expansion of GMO crops in Vietnam ― especially Monsanto ― has in fact been many years in the making. The company, with the assistance of the U.S. government, has been establishing its economic and cultural presence in the country since relations between the two nations was restored in 1995. Vietnam won the military battle against the U.S., but lost the economic battle because it could not thrive without foreign capital. According to Nayan Chandas post-war history of Indochina, Brother Enemy: The War After the War, American banks and oil companies were invited to Hanoi as early as 1976 to explore trade and financial relations. But the Americans opted for a trade embargo that crippled the country until 1995. The very year the U.S. lifted the trade embargo, Monsanto opened a representative office in Vietnam and began its outreach efforts to approach Vietnamese farmers and partners. According to public documents and WikiLeaks cables, the ...

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New Study: Monsantos Herbicide May Be Contaminating The Worlds Drinking Water. In a groundbreaking study published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry in November 2011, glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is flowing freely into the groundwater in areas where it is being applied. The researchers found that 41% of the 140 groundwater samples taken from Catalonia Spain, had levels beyond the limit of quantification - indicating that, despite manufacturers claims, it does not break down rapidly in the environment, and is accumulating there in concerning quantities.. Why Is Groundwater Contamination An Important Finding?. Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface, that supplies aquifers, wells and springs. If a chemical like glyphosate is mobile enough to get into the groundwater and is intrinsically resistant to being biodegraded (after all, it is being used to kill/degrade living things - not the other way around), significant environmental exposures ...

Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence. In their private relations they are not pre-occupied with anxiety lest they should lose such affection and respect as they receive: they are engaged in giving affection and respect freely, and the reward comes of itself without their seeking. In their work they are not haunted by jealousy of competitors, but concerned with the actual matter that has to be done. In politics, they do not spend time and passion defending unjust privileges of their class or nation, but they aim at making the world as a whole happier, less cruel, less full of conflict between rival creeds, and more full of human beings whose growth has not been dwarfed and stunted by oppression. ...

By Nick Meyer On January 14, 2016 The Monsanto Company is far from just a seed and pesticide corporation: it also has a long history of being involved with chemical weapons, as anyone whos read about the terrifying history of Agent Orange in Vietnam knows. Monsanto has long sought to deny accusations and disassociate itself with its history of Agent Orange. ...

Democracy Now! does a follow-up story today on yesterdays hour-long expose on John Towery, the military and police informant who spied on PMR, IWW, and SDS groups in Olympia and Tacoma. John Towery contributed to a document released in March 2009 about integrating and coordinating intelligence for the purpose of state repression. Other contributors who…

The phrase was initially inspired by a feeling of dead weight that I felt in my right arm after my ganglion cyst surgery. The story goes: my arm was still under the effects of anesthesia but the rest of my body was coherent--as I was sitting in the recovery room, I began to notice my right arm slip from the pillow on which it was resting. I reacted how I normally would; somewhere in my motor cortex, a sequence of action potentials told my arm to pick itself up, except it was completely immobile. My left arm came to the rescue. Now, at this point, while others may have reacted in panic or discomfort, my only thought was, I need to choreograph before this sh*t wears off! ...

AL amyloidosis is caused by a bone marrow disorder. The VA has recognized how debilitating this can be and has assigned an automatic 100% evaluation.

My brother, Lorenzo, is gone to a better place. He probably succumbed to smoke inhalation from the fire. He was my second oldest brother; the second of the 13 children. He is also the second brother to pass way. My eldest brother, Sylvester, Jr., died in 2002 after my father died in 2001. Lorenzo was a U. S. Air Force veteran who received an honorable discharge. He worked for the U. S. Postal Service for many years after leaving the Air Force. About nine years ago, he returned to Helena-West Helena to live and assist my mother after my fathers death. He was divorced. His children and grandchildren live in the Cleveland, Ohio area ...

Advocates of drone war believe, as do many of its critics, that it minimizes casualties. These Air Force veterans have, however, stepped forward to tell us that such claims simply arent true. In a study of what can be known about drone killings, the human rights group Reprieve has confirmed this reality vividly, finding that, in Pakistan, in attempts to take out 41 men, American drones actually killed an estimated 1,147 people (while not all of the 41 targeted figures even died). In other words, this hasnt proved to be a war on terror, but a war of terror, a reality the drone whistleblowers confirm.. Heather is blunt in her criticism. Hearing politicians speak about drones being precision weapons [makes it seem like theyre] able to make surgical strikes. To me its completely ridiculous, completely ludicrous to make these statements.. The three whistleblowers point, for instance, to the complete absence of any post-strike verification of who exactly has died. Theres a bomb. They drop it. ...

An Air Force veteran is trying to make an airless paint brush work as a portable, low-maintenance paint dispenser.The paintbrush is made of low-wattage plastic that is not as flexible as other types of paints.This makes it more easy to apply and clean than traditional paints.And because it is non-toxic, the paintbrush also is reusable.The … ...

An Air Force veteran who owns three upstate New York properties has been forced to live in her car because her tenants have refused to pay rent thanks to the eviction moratorium.. Brandie LaCasse told CBS News that she has been living at friends homes and out of her car with her young daughter. She said she is owed more than $23,000 in unpaid rent but cannot force her tenants to pay or leave because of federal and state moratoriums on evictions.. Ive cried many nights, like thinking, Wheres my money? the single mom said. I dont understand how they can give my private property to somebody to live for free. I bought that property. I fixed it up with my blood, sweat and tears.. She added, I invested in these properties, never thinking I wouldnt have a place to live. I just want my house. Thats it. I just want my house. Federal funds earmarked to help alleviate such situations during the pandemic have not been allocated, according to the US Treasury Department.. ...

Good team work takes practice. After meeting only two days ago, Air Force veteran Rick Hayes and his new service dog Malachi are getting along quite well. Hayes said, I figured I would come in and t

The US police officer who shot and killed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol is cleared by an investigation.

Long before she became the Director of Touro University Nevadas Office of Academic Services and Institutional Support (OASIS), Tisheena Lowe grew up in the small village of Katzenbach, Germany, the daughter of a U.S. Air Force veteran stationed at Ramstein … Continue reading Staff Profile: Tisheena Lowe, Director of OASIS, Division of Student Affairs. ...

Diabetes is a large reason why I need a new kidney, he told Kidney Connection. Although there is some history of it on one side of the family, I was also exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange during the 24 months I served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1967-1969 ...

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