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I was talking with a vet today at the Houston VA. He has two of the four cancers from Agent Orange exposure in 1966. He isn't expected to make it. The VA doctors told him and his wife, there isn't anything more they can do. He's in a wheel chair and cannot walk. He mentioned he found out that traces of Agent Orange are in weed killers such as Round Up. I looked it up tonight and sure enough, it's true. But, as I continued to look I came across this from Wikipedia. I think you'll be concerned.
Our benevolent agricultural guardians at the USDA have announced that they are allowing the introduction of new corn and soybean seeds that have been designed specifically to withstand a dousing with 2,4-D, a key ingredient in the infamously deadly Agent Orange.
Now we get to be the unwilling guinea pigs while USDA-approved test fields are planted.
It seems that our government did not learn its lesson from the millions of people gruesomely affected by the ingredients of Agent Orange the first time around.
Agent Orange, you may recall, was brought to wartime Vietnam by the evil masterminds at Dow and Monsanto. American forces sprayed it all over the countryside of Vietnam from 1961 to 1971. Its purpose was to defoliate trees and shrubs that were providing cover to enemy forces, and to kill food crops that were providing sustenance.
image: http://cdn5.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Agent-Orange.jpg
Agent Orange
This caused damage to the ecosystem of Vietnam that is still present today. More than 5 million acres of forests were destroyed, and half a million acres of farmland were tainted. It will take centuries of nurturing for the land to recover.
The environment was not the only thing affected. Exposure to Agent Orange resulted in five horrible illness in those exposed: soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (including hairy-cell leukemia), Hodgkin’s disease, and chloracne. (source) What’s even worse is that the damage may not be limited to those directly exposed – it can affect offspring even up to 3rd and 4th generations.
Over a million US veterans were also exposed:
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provided $16.2 billion in compensation to 1,095,473 Vietnam-era veterans.[i] The agency does not relate these service-connected benefit figures directly to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure or to any other possible cause of illness, nor does it provide data on total compensation for the years since the war ended.
Thousands of U.S. veterans returning from Vietnam reported health problems almost immediately and rapidly associated them with Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Controversy over these assertions began just as fast, and continues now.
Many questions remain: Whether (and how to test whether) the illnesses of veterans and their offspring are related to Agent Orange and other herbicide exposure; Levels of dioxin present in the chemicals; The accuracy of data about veterans’ exposure; Levels of corporate, military and government awareness of dioxin’s presence; Fixing of responsibility for the contaminant’s presence and liability for its damages; Details of research protocols, accuracy of findings and reliability of interpretations; and Decisions on who should pay what to whom for which possible courses of remedial action. This “blame game” has blocked action in both the U.S. and Vietnam, needlessly prolonging the suffering of millions of U.S. veterans and Vietnamese. – (source)
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/usda-approved-agent-orange-coming-farm-near/#ye18M2IrreDAADrr.99
Our benevolent agricultural guardians at the USDA have announced that they are allowing the introduction of new corn and soybean seeds that have been designed specifically to withstand a dousing with 2,4-D, a key ingredient in the infamously deadly Agent Orange.
Now we get to be the unwilling guinea pigs while USDA-approved test fields are planted.
It seems that our government did not learn its lesson from the millions of people gruesomely affected by the ingredients of Agent Orange the first time around.
Agent Orange, you may recall, was brought to wartime Vietnam by the evil masterminds at Dow and Monsanto. American forces sprayed it all over the countryside of Vietnam from 1961 to 1971. Its purpose was to defoliate trees and shrubs that were providing cover to enemy forces, and to kill food crops that were providing sustenance.
image: http://cdn5.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Agent-Orange.jpg
Agent Orange
This caused damage to the ecosystem of Vietnam that is still present today. More than 5 million acres of forests were destroyed, and half a million acres of farmland were tainted. It will take centuries of nurturing for the land to recover.
The environment was not the only thing affected. Exposure to Agent Orange resulted in five horrible illness in those exposed: soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (including hairy-cell leukemia), Hodgkin’s disease, and chloracne. (source) What’s even worse is that the damage may not be limited to those directly exposed – it can affect offspring even up to 3rd and 4th generations.
Over a million US veterans were also exposed:
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provided $16.2 billion in compensation to 1,095,473 Vietnam-era veterans.[i] The agency does not relate these service-connected benefit figures directly to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure or to any other possible cause of illness, nor does it provide data on total compensation for the years since the war ended.
Thousands of U.S. veterans returning from Vietnam reported health problems almost immediately and rapidly associated them with Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Controversy over these assertions began just as fast, and continues now.
Many questions remain: Whether (and how to test whether) the illnesses of veterans and their offspring are related to Agent Orange and other herbicide exposure; Levels of dioxin present in the chemicals; The accuracy of data about veterans’ exposure; Levels of corporate, military and government awareness of dioxin’s presence; Fixing of responsibility for the contaminant’s presence and liability for its damages; Details of research protocols, accuracy of findings and reliability of interpretations; and Decisions on who should pay what to whom for which possible courses of remedial action. This “blame game” has blocked action in both the U.S. and Vietnam, needlessly prolonging the suffering of millions of U.S. veterans and Vietnamese. – (source)
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/usda-approved-agent-orange-coming-farm-near/#ye18M2IrreDAADrr.99
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Birth Defects in Children of Vietnam and Korea Veterans
VA has recognized that certain birth defects among Veterans' children are associated with Veterans' qualifying service in Vietnam or Korea.
A nurse helping a man who is in a wheelchair
Spina bifida (except spina bifida occulta), a defect in the developing fetus that results in incomplete closing of the spine, is associated with Veterans' exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides during qualifying service in Vietnam or Korea.
Birth defects in children of women Veterans is associated with their military service in Vietnam, but are not related to herbicide exposure.
The affected child must have been conceived after the Veteran entered Vietnam or the Korean demilitarized zone during the qualifying service period.
VA benefits
Children with spina bifida or covered birth defects who are biological children of Veterans with qualifying service may be eligible for compensation, health care and vocational training.
Learn more about benefits for Veterans' children with birth defects.
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VA has recognized that certain birth defects among Veterans' children are associated with Veterans' qualifying service in Vietnam or Korea.
A nurse helping a man who is in a wheelchair
Spina bifida (except spina bifida occulta), a defect in the developing fetus that results in incomplete closing of the spine, is associated with Veterans' exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides during qualifying service in Vietnam or Korea.
Birth defects in children of women Veterans is associated with their military service in Vietnam, but are not related to herbicide exposure.
The affected child must have been conceived after the Veteran entered Vietnam or the Korean demilitarized zone during the qualifying service period.
VA benefits
Children with spina bifida or covered birth defects who are biological children of Veterans with qualifying service may be eligible for compensation, health care and vocational training.
Learn more about benefits for Veterans' children with birth defects.
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See more at: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/birth-defects/index.asp#sthash.1PBM6JS4.dpuf
Birth Defects in Children of Vietnam and Korea Veterans - Public Health
Information on birth defects VA has recognized as associated with Veterans' exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam or Korea or as associated with service in Vietnam
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Diagnosed at MD Anderson Houston by pathology after hemicolectomy with discovery of Carcinoid tumor and NHL in 8 lymph nodes. This was Jan 1977. At 41 yrs since Dx, I am apparently the oldest survivor for NET on the Inet.
While home on leave between tours in Vietnam in 1968 I had an emergency appendectomy but no pathology. In 2015 I had a urostomy done to remove my bladder and my prostate. Dx was TCC or Urothelial Cancer with Sarcomatoid aspects. I am now 74 yrs old. I teach other people about GI diseases resulting from Agent Orange.
While home on leave between tours in Vietnam in 1968 I had an emergency appendectomy but no pathology. In 2015 I had a urostomy done to remove my bladder and my prostate. Dx was TCC or Urothelial Cancer with Sarcomatoid aspects. I am now 74 yrs old. I teach other people about GI diseases resulting from Agent Orange.
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WOW! "Our benevolent agricultural guardians at the USDA have announced that they are allowing the introduction of new corn and soybean seeds that have been designed specifically to withstand a dousing with 2,4-D, a key ingredient in the infamously deadly Agent Orange." Unfriggin' believable!!!!
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Are they trying to take us out one by one over a period of years? Here's the article. Unbelievable!
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/usda-approved-agent-orange-its-coming-to-a-farm-near-you-01042014
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/usda-approved-agent-orange-its-coming-to-a-farm-near-you-01042014
USDA-Approved Agent Orange: It's Coming to a Farm Near You - The Organic Prepper
Ah, the sweet smell of Agent Orange in the morning. Our benevolent agricultural guardians at the USDA have announced that they are allowing the introduction of new corn and soybean seeds that have been designed specifically to withstand a dousing with 2,4-D, a key ingredient in the infamously deadly Agent Orange. Now we get to …
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loaded it on trucks to load on choppers to spray. After spraying, patrolled the same areas nightly; slept in it, breathed it....know how it smells, the color an how it sticks to skin. I go to the va and ask them about my medical issues and I'm told I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to agent orange. I'm just an old vet! So Keith, my answer to your question is, "I don't know anything about agent orange", and that's what the VA tells me anyway!!!!!!!!
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I know we disbursed it by my UH-1D Huey helicopter all over Bon Son, Pleiku, Ahn Loa Valley, and other places. All we were told is that it was a defoliant. It was that and much more. The Vietnamese people are still suffering from it and will,for years to come.
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I share a piece of property with a vet who was a flight medic in nam who is now in chemo for lymphoma and he may not make it
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MSgt Manuel Diaz
It kills humans slower than plants and depending on how much and how often and how good your immune system is to varying degrees your life is cut short, cancers or heart ... circulation problems probably more problems not yet disclosed
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to all it may concern please see FT mcClelallan Grads,google article on Anniston,Alabama, home of the U.S.A.M.P.Academy until its closure,because of "financial" reasons (base closures) you will really get a lesson on dioxin exposure and to any chemical students/MPs who went to FT Mac,from its opening till it closed you need to see THIS, speaking from experience, ive already been to stage 4 lymphoma and back but the chemicals that i have been exposed to in the early 80s and beyond have left me permanetly disabled @ 52,un-able to work,and im just 1 in 1000s
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Steve, we have a member who was stationed at Ft. McClellan. She suffers from severe arthritis, and many more problems. Sometimes, she can't get out of bed? It took years before it was shutdown.
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CPL Steve Brady
monsanto turned anniston alabama in to a toxic waste dump, FT Mac was right next to anniston,it used their water supply,soldiers went to town on passes ate there slept there swam there and everything else you do on passes,theres a major creek that runs from anniston thru the post it kills fish and its watershed dispeared into training grounds major portions of the post were strangely closed off from humans long ago with no apparent real reason then the whole post gets shutdown(after being open since the 40s), then becomes the countries largest superfund clean-up site ever this is done after monsanto spends millions trying to fix the damage done to the population and property in anniston google Fort Mcclellan
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SPC Nancy Greene
CPL Steve Brady I was stationed at Ft McClellan 84-86 and I am now experiencing conditions related to exposure. The Monsanto factory was adjacent to the post and the town of Anniston. Monsanto settled, out of court, with the residents of Anniston fir 700 million. The water and soil were contaminated and the Chemical School was ‘testing’ Sarin gas. In addition, the radiation levels aIn Pelham range were measured at 50 X ‘normal’ exposure. There is a law firm assisting with the McClellan claims. There is a plethora of information on YouTube. (I also worked on Base at Camp LeJeune from 93-2005)
I have come to the conclusion most of my medical conditions are related to exposure to PCB
I have come to the conclusion most of my medical conditions are related to exposure to PCB
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Monsanto is playing a very dangerous game with mother nature as in making GMO's. If nothing but a particular GMO will grow in the ground what happens when a blight comes around and knocks out the GMO. When you make a plant resilient to every known problem sooner or later nature will create a fix in the form of a super blight.
Now they are messing with crops and our top soil. Sure our crops are yielding more now per acre than they ever had but at what cost. Much like Operation Ranch Hand in Vietnam there was fallout back in the US at Times Beach, MO. Also many military installations are contaminated - if you wonder why a based was closed this may be a contributing factor.
http://www.gmasw.com/ao_bases.htm
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-timesbeach.html
Now they are messing with crops and our top soil. Sure our crops are yielding more now per acre than they ever had but at what cost. Much like Operation Ranch Hand in Vietnam there was fallout back in the US at Times Beach, MO. Also many military installations are contaminated - if you wonder why a based was closed this may be a contributing factor.
http://www.gmasw.com/ao_bases.htm
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-timesbeach.html
Ill Fated Times Beach, Missouri
Along Route 66 you now see one of Missouri’s newest state parks, the Route 66 State Park. However, this was once the former site of a resort community on the Meramec River called Times Beach.
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SPC David S., Thank you for your input about this question. We had a RP member who was at Fort McClellan, and was diagnosed with several ailments attributed to Fort McClellan. I saved the URL for the contaminated land used by the military.
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Yes many of bases or post listed I've lived as my Father was Air Force and then I went Army. Was born At Wright-Patt, lived at Robbins AFB, Langley AFB, went to basic at Ft Dix, and was in Gulfport, MS and so on. I'm not sure if I was ever exposed to anything bad - as a kid we would go to the on base junk yards and pick things like old radar magnets. Looking back might not have been a good idea to be mucking about in a military dump. I met a guy in line at Disneyland who was exposed. He had the rashes and suspect cancers. Riddled with illness and confined to a wheelchair he still found a way to take his grand-daughter to Disneyland -
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Agent Orange Contained 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, many of you have used part of agent orange and did not know it, 2,4-d is used in many common weed killers like weed b gone. The second chemical had dixon mixed in with it and it is one of the most dangerous cancer causing chemicals know. If you are exposed to it chances are you will get cancer.
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SSG John Erny, Thank you for a great explanation. I consider myself very lucky I don't have diabetes or cancer. In my younger years, DDT was used for various reasons. One was to kill rodents, and was used for defoliation. It was used by my city as a fog to kill mosquitoes. I served in Vietnam, and besides being one of the ones who dispersed it , I walked through it and it as a grunt. I worked at a chemical plant all my life where benzene was used. Before it was classified as a carcinogenic, we used to clean up with it. So, I have been very blessed to never have had it.
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I know the current presumptive dates for Korea are very bogus!!!!!!!!!
Many vets who have especially served/spent time on the DMZ long before and after the current dates are suffering from A.O. related diseases!!!!!
But, Korea has always been the forgotten beast, sadly! Forgotten War, Forgotten DMZ Duty, Forgotten A.O. used = Forgotten Veterans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many vets who have especially served/spent time on the DMZ long before and after the current dates are suffering from A.O. related diseases!!!!!
But, Korea has always been the forgotten beast, sadly! Forgotten War, Forgotten DMZ Duty, Forgotten A.O. used = Forgotten Veterans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sgt Richard Buckner, if you are serving in a relative non- combat zone, to me , it's just serving where you were sent. In Germany, Japan, Hawaii, and other world places, is no different than serving here in the states. IMHO
The wars are different because men and women served in combat. Those need to be remembered always.
The wars are different because men and women served in combat. Those need to be remembered always.
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I'm sorry Sgt Richard Buckner, I'm sorry. I intended this comment for SGT Thomas Lucken. Thanks for the up vote. (-:
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Yeah, the VA waited too long to help these guys, and now, they are dead or dying. The VA got their way on those Korean vets. Put them off long enough and they'll die.
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