Bill would aid Vietnam vets exposed to Agent OrangeFrank Burgos
Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and coauthors examined the association between MGUS and exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War in a study sample of 958 male veterans, including 479 Operation Ranch Hand veterans who were involved in ...
Four million innocent Vietnamese civilians were exposed to Agent Orange, and as many as 3 million have suffered diagnosable illnesses because of it, including the progeny of people who were exposedto it, approximating the number of innocent Vietnamese civilians that were killed in the war. The ...
U.S. military personnel who were exposed to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam have litigated the issue for decades, seeking compensation for medical care resulting from Agent Orange exposure. They have sued both the U.S. government and the corporations who manufactured the chemical compounds. ...
Sarbacker is one of560,000 Vietnam War-era sailors and Marines exposed to Agent Orangewhile at sea. But because these “Blue Water veterans” never set boots on the ground in Vietnam,they weren’t eligible for Agent Orange-related benefitsin the same way others were. Advocates fought for ...
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"In the best of all worlds, if you came down with cholangiocarcinoma, just like Agent Orange, you automatically were in," he said, referring to benefits granted to veterans exposed to the toxic defoliant sprayed in Vietnam. "You didn't have to go fighting." ...
andapproximately50,000Americanservicemendeserted.TheVeteransAdministrationestimatesthat830,000Vietnamvetssufferedsymptomsofpost-traumaticstressdisorder;ofthatnumber,480,000weresodeeplyaffectedthattheywereconsidereddisabled.SeveralhundredthousandAmericantroopswereexposedtodefoliants,suchasAgentOrange.Theestimatedcostofthewar...
“In the best of all worlds, if you came down with cholangiocarcinoma, just like Agent Orange, you automatically were in,” he said, referring to benefits granted to veterans exposed to the toxic defoliant sprayed in Vietnam. “You didn’t have to go fighting.” ...
Agent Orange was a herbicide used to attempt to eradicate the Vietnamese’ food supply. It blew back on US troops. Between 1962 and 1970, 100 million tons of herbicide were dropped on Vietnam (Young, p.82)In 1970, a US Senate report revealed that “the US has dumped [on South Viet...