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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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Tha Vietnam War maybe over but not the results from it. Agent Orange and many other not to mention diseases that have now come to light. We All will never Forget this War that in my eyes our politicians are the losers, not our Military men and women who served during this time.
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No, it is not over. I suffer from the effects of Agent Orange. My daughter, born 4 years after I returned, suffers from my exposure as does her children. My son, born before I went, does not suffer from any of the problems that Agent Orange causes, nor do any of his six children. When will the war be over? I fear that it will be many more generations to come and go, if it will ever end.
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I keep seeing this question and I don't know how to respond. Yes I have had cancer and other ailments a bad heart and COPD. I have had friends who have died of worse who never set foot in Vietnam. I'm in my 70s now and living day to day. I lost one career after another because of PTSD but I can't complain about where I wound up. I guess the Angel the Lord sent to care for me has done a wonderful job
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Yes it is for me but I fear it isn't for a lot of people. I've adopted the Buddhist approach to life: live in the present. I visited I Corps in March 2016. What a great trip and a chance to see how far they've come in 50 years.
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Ya, it's over. I'm thinking of going there on vacation soon. The war was a foolish waste of blood and treasure.
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Inlight of the events of the last few weeks, do you think the civil war is over?
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Sorry to say, to ans. your question, the V.N. war is not over. Taking a page from more than one historian, the war, any war, is not over as long as a surviving veteran remembers his experience in that war. When that vet. passes on, the war is truly over.
Agent Orange has been used in the South Pacific Is. and in Panama Canal Zone from the 1960's thru the 1990's. Find the exact dates....Good luck unless you can break into any secret data base on the subject.
It was the V.N. veterans who broke down the V.A's. denial for treating both PTSD and Agent Orange.
Agent Orange has been used in the South Pacific Is. and in Panama Canal Zone from the 1960's thru the 1990's. Find the exact dates....Good luck unless you can break into any secret data base on the subject.
It was the V.N. veterans who broke down the V.A's. denial for treating both PTSD and Agent Orange.
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I failed to write that after I returned from Viet Nam several years later my wife became pregnant and had a miscarriage. The child was so deformed that the doctors couldn't sex the child. A few years later we had a daughter who was born with a heart birth defect.
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I've got Type 2 diabetes and have skin cancer outbreaks. The VA is treating me for the skin cancer. some of the children have birth defects from us being exposed to Agent Orange. They haven't included all birth defects, just a few.
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On good days, the war is over. There are still issues from the cancer and the mental stuff, but I prefer to think I'm dealing with them in peacetime.
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