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Vietnam veterans are dying at the rate of 390 deaths each day. I don't know about you guys, but it kind of gives me the chills.
Enjoy today's Memorial Day and please take time to "Remember".
Enjoy today's Memorial Day and please take time to "Remember".
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I’m still trying to get help for skin problem i don’t know what I have all I know is i itch all over so bad I wish i could jump out of my skin, it’s a shame the va can’t treat this angent orange mess they tried to kill them with but it got us also. I had prostrate cancer 2 years ago I’m 71 years old the va. isn’t trying to upgrade my disability because they are waiting on me to die like all the rest causality of the Vietnam war and Agent Orange Chemical War Fair that they lied about to Congress that wasn’t being used
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CPT Michael Walsh
It sounds like your a member of the VA healthcare system. They have or can refer you to a dermatologist and maybe that will help.
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Pass this on to the NFL bunch of cowards that take a knee I am a wounded warrior and will never watch football again if all vets do this and people that lost love ones the NFL will go broke
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PO3 Paul Lowrey
I totally agree with you Cpl Goward, I haven't watched a pro football game in years nor have I purchased anything with their logo's on it and I'll bet that the families of 58,220 members lost feel the same way. I wasn't wounded but I'm terminal from exposure to Agent Orange. Welcome home Brother!
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It's damn sad, so many slowly eaten up by Agent Orange and other great ideas over time. Please also remember since the VA published it's 1st suicide report in 1999, we have lost between 20-23 veterans per day due to suicide. So far we have lost over 143,000- that is more than the KIA's from Korea, Vietnam, and all the conflicts thru GWOT.
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I don't know, but we Vietnam-era vets are probably dying at a greater rate than actuarial tables would suggest we should. The indefensible incompetence of the VA and the civilians charged with administering it (I'm looking at you, Congress AND Obama) have no doubt hastened the demise of many of us. Here's something to think about: How about paying the doctors, nurses, and those at the VA hospitals and clinics who are actually doing the work a competitive, attractive wage? Take the funds from food stamps and the hosts of government freebies that each successive Congress enacts in order to get re-elected. Man up and do the right thing. No one deserves this nation's unquestioning care than our vets in need of medical and psychological care and healing. (By the way, I am not one, thankfully.)
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SGM Larry McMullen
Money is there if we hold the military and Congress responsible! However, blame goes to every president from Johnson to Obama. However, more money has been sent to the VA during Obama's terms than any during any other presidency. Check out how money was allocated to the VA versus the military during our soc-called peace time!
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MAJ Pete Dencker
How about giving all veterans a card that would allow them to access local civilian Doctors and hospitals, who would then bill the Gov't for services provided - at the same time do away with all VA facilities and infrastructure/beauracracy. Haven't done the math but I'll bet that both the taxpayers and the Veterans would win in this type scenario
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PO3 Rob Austin
SGM Larry McMullen - The $$ may have been sent, but a great deal of it was chewed up by the insane and unnecessary growth of administrative paper-pushers, etc. And today we hear that Obama's head of the DOJ is clearing the way for the head of the Phoenix VA hospital get her job back after having been at the center of that facility's criminal treatment of vets. Thanks, Obama, Jarrett, Holder, Lynch, Reid, Pelosi, et. al.
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SGM Larry McMullen
PO3 Rob Austin - Understood but the key word is accountability and NO ONE wants to hold anyone accountable except the veterans wanting care. No reason for anyone to keep a job with her history.
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As a Nam vet who is 67 and has AO related health problems, and who spent this Memorial Day in the hospital my answer is "why bother". We all die, my brothers will always be my brothers...in effect, we will never die! Someone will always remember and honor what we did.
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SSG Timothy Miller
Bro, I understand where your coming from. BUT, our stinking Gov has a DUTY to it's OWN PEOPLE not to wage war against them. YES, there will ALWAYS be colateral damage in war. But, they (Gov leaders) have a duty as we had a duty to protect our own as well as our Constitution. There is a different cell line with the associated cancers caused by AO.......I have done my best to study these cancer cells and think I have learned how to identify them. Our Vets have a specific need for specific treatment to MAINTAIN their QUALITY of life. I am dedicated to this. Not only to that end, I will help/treat ANY VETERAN who needs me. Several things anger me, the VA being one. The liberals who are hell bent to disarm us all and turn us to lambs for the slaughter is another.
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SSG Timothy Miller
And one other thing, the VA reports Vets (from any era) to FBI-NCIS so that the rights of our Vets are denied their Constitutional rights under the second amendment. I do agree, if one of our Vets has battle fatigue, they should sit down their guns or let their dad or brothers hold them in good keep, until, with proper treatment and understanding, they can return and integrate back into American society to be the husbands and fathers (and mothers nowadays), get a good paying job so they can raise their families and have the same rights as any other law abiding citizen......I DO NOT agree with VA: they acts as a enemy to the Vet by working with those who seek to deny Vets rights. These are the very Americans who should lead our society today. It is these Americans who have tasted the horrors, hardships-family separations which provide them with a deep understanding to know when it is time to turn to armed force against our enemies
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The older we get , the more ominous necessity of death. Having said that, In my short acquaintance with the gallant RP Raiders, I will take this opportunity to say, See yall on the other side.
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It gives me chills as well even though it is simple mortality at best. Whole different ballgame than the reported 22 suicides a day.
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SPC Mark Brown
I recall reading the recent stats show the number to be down to <21 per day. Still not good, but a move in the right direction.
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I have to believe that Agent Orange is taking a heavy toll. The Marines in my old unit are dying at an alarming rate. I do not know if the link below is correct. It mentions that the average life expectancy of a Vietnam Veteran is 65.
http://tomohalloran.com/2013/05/30/vietnam-veterans-%E2%80%8Bdying-at-an-earlier-age-the-agent-orange-cover-up/
http://tomohalloran.com/2013/05/30/vietnam-veterans-%E2%80%8Bdying-at-an-earlier-age-the-agent-orange-cover-up/
VIETNAM VETERANS DYING AT AN EARLIER AGE - THE AGENT ORANGE COVER UP - Tom O'Halloran
TomOHalloran.com is a news, information and opinion site. Our goal is to post, report and analyze stories of interest on a wide range of topics from politics and culture to faith and family. We are located in Longview Texas.
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Cpl Vic Eizenga
then I am a head of the game next month I will be 70 but most in my family live to 90's and 1 to 103
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To many, how many are from natural causes, and not Agent Orange?
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
SP5 Mark Kuzinski - I asked the Agent Orange part because we lost a fine armorer to it in '94.
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