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RP Members and Connections I post this question on behalf of Sgt David G Duchesneau Vietnam Veteran and Marine.
Do you think the Vietnam War is really over for those of you who suffer from that, "gift that keeps on giving," Agent Orange?
It's been over forty-six years and ten months since David came back from Serving two tours in Vietnam and he still battling the effects of being exposed to Agent Orange. Finally, after all of this time, the VA has recognized Agent Orange. David was exposed to what he was told is, "this defoliant agent that will never hurt you or your health."
How many Vietnam Veterans have become a casualty, a statistic, of the Vietnam War?
Yes, the Vietnam War maybe over, but how many of you are still battling the effects of Vietnam? So now what happens? For many like Sgt David G. Duchesneau and so many others like him, the Vietnam War will never end until that so called Agent,"Agent Orange" finally kills them. Let's hope not!
Do you think the Vietnam War is really over for those of you who suffer from that, "gift that keeps on giving," Agent Orange?
It's been over forty-six years and ten months since David came back from Serving two tours in Vietnam and he still battling the effects of being exposed to Agent Orange. Finally, after all of this time, the VA has recognized Agent Orange. David was exposed to what he was told is, "this defoliant agent that will never hurt you or your health."
How many Vietnam Veterans have become a casualty, a statistic, of the Vietnam War?
Yes, the Vietnam War maybe over, but how many of you are still battling the effects of Vietnam? So now what happens? For many like Sgt David G. Duchesneau and so many others like him, the Vietnam War will never end until that so called Agent,"Agent Orange" finally kills them. Let's hope not!
Vietnam War
Agent Orange
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Health
Edited 7 y ago
Posted 7 y ago
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World view has the war over and in the past. I don't have any affects from AO yet. For years I would joke that if I made it to seventy, I broke even. Now that I am 69, it isn't a joke any more. I still have nightmares, but I recognize them (usually) and wake up before they get real bad. I have a disability for PTS. My life has been pretty good otherwise and I'm not complaining, but the war won't be over for me until my final rest.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs Sir,Vietnam will never end for those of us suffering the effects of agent orange and the reception received on our return home.What followed that was 3 decades of being ignored by the government that put us there and the people we went there to protect.
Thank you,Sir, for allowing me to vent a little on this (to me) very tender subject.
Thank you,Sir, for allowing me to vent a little on this (to me) very tender subject.
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No I see it daily the impact of the diases that this war ha e cause the 3 million men and women that has bore the wounds and scars of this failed policy. The industrial military complex at it worse.
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SSgt James Connolly
I don't think anybody thinks about it but our numbers are around 500-600 K of troops still alive. Please don't quote me but that's what I have been led to believe.
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I left Vietnam in 1972 and the war is still with me COL Mikel J. Burroughs. War kills us day by day Mikel with things you never knew would kill you.
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Not only does AO affect the soldiers that were sprayed, it affects their offspring, and who knows what it did to their genetics (DNA)??
Then, we have Monsanto....they are selling ROUNDUP!! Please DO NOT spray this on your yards, its basic elements are what AO is composed of, it is killing our bee population!!! our butterflies, etc. Plus our lakes, streams, fish, etc. What they can no longer use in warfare, they find a way to use in agriculture!!! Read the labels.
Then, we have Monsanto....they are selling ROUNDUP!! Please DO NOT spray this on your yards, its basic elements are what AO is composed of, it is killing our bee population!!! our butterflies, etc. Plus our lakes, streams, fish, etc. What they can no longer use in warfare, they find a way to use in agriculture!!! Read the labels.
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Granted, it's a slow, painful death. I had a very frank discussion with my former commanding officer (Detachment Commander) from Viet Nam as he lay on his death bed about ten years ago -- dying from his exposure to herbicides. I felt guilty as the engineer at our A-camp for spraying herbicides liberally to keep the jungle back and fields of fire open. He stopped me as I tried apologizing and said, "I'm not sorry. When you walk back into the waiting room, take a long look at my daughter. She means the world to me. She would have never been born had you not kept the bad guys from sneaking up on us. The trade-off was worth it to me." He died a few days later. I served on a nine man Special Forces A-team. Five of us were severely wounded. The other four have since died of exposure to herbicides and the VA determined that their deaths were all service connected. You pay your nickel and you take your chances.
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Hell no, veterans still suffer, family members suffer. Some can't escape what their eyes have scene.
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As long as service members continue to suffer from the effects of the Vietnam War it is not over IMO. I've posted before about a Ranch Hand pilot who came to B52s after his Vietnam tour. Great guy with lots of exciting stories for all us bomber pukes. Unfortunately he passed in the early 80s from exposure to Agent Orange so obviously even people who didn't directly handle the chemical were affected by it. I fear that we are beginning to see the lingering effects of exposure to burn pits from the Gulf wars as the next deadly lasting legacy.
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It can stop giving anytime. Over the past 52 years i've had 2 AO related diagnosis and now as soon as I turned 70 I received a type 2 diabetes diagnosis with an AO connection. All the sleeping in the dirt, filling canteens from ground water etc. from defoilated patrol areas weren't a good idea it seems.
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I spent 3 weeks sleeping in a tent next to an Agent Orange storage and shipping area, Camp Holloway, Pleiku. Everything around us was orange, but we were told not to worry, the stuff is not harmful. And the VA said: "couldn't be from Agent Orange".
Now we know that we were poisoned by our own government - sort of like friendly fire from Washing, DC.
And the VA: Yes it is a problem. Too bad! We can't treat it now. Just try to live with it. Disability?? Ha ha! So we try to live on - so far, so good.
Jerry Robin
Now we know that we were poisoned by our own government - sort of like friendly fire from Washing, DC.
And the VA: Yes it is a problem. Too bad! We can't treat it now. Just try to live with it. Disability?? Ha ha! So we try to live on - so far, so good.
Jerry Robin
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