SOS FROM ILL GULF WAR VETERANS

THIS IS SOS big time!

THE GULF WAR 90-91 VETERANS ARE ILL WITH REAL PHYSIOLOGICAL DAMAGE and READY FOR MEDEVAC

WE have been losing lately if you have not noticed VA killed UT Southwestern Research on Gulf War Illness, Squalene Antibody test was sabotaged by DOD Cross Filing on Patent on Squalene Antibodies- Tulane University Gerry Labs, and effective DU testing set up by one of the Doctors that served with us in theater has been shut off repeatedly.

To lump this critical issue- Gulf War Illness- in with at least 27 programs not directly related to military or military war exposures is inappropriate.  And is a sneak attack once again to rob the gulf war veterans of 90-91 of getting help they earned and deserve.  Once again something has gone wrong and I tend to now believe that this was not an accident!  We have been under attack since we came home in 91 and identified problems!  For whatever reason these things keep happening and are showing a clear pattern of denial and delay. 

Enough is enough!

When we came home they pushed it as PTSD and stress which it was not!  Money was misspent into PTSD type research when it was not PTSD!  It took until 2004 for the VA RAC GWI to say it was not stress/PTSD.  But VA continued on its way and psychological researchers kept getting money.  The whole effort kept going in the wrong direction and that is one reason the VA funds were taken to UTSW Medical University and a Collaborative Research Center was tried.  But VA did not play well with others even after that. 

So now the UTSW Medical Gulf War Illness Research Program has been cut off and the VA is trying to charge the university 20 million dollars.  All of this without Full Senate VA Committee Hearing or Investigation!

Now the hope of finding treatment trials for gulf war veterans thru DOD CDMRP is threatened! Mr Binns is right historically the DOD had more funding on the issue of Gulf War Illness but slowly and surely the amount got mixed and diluted into future combat research for Deployment Medicine Research and after 911 it went to ZERO.  In 2005 the effort was made to restore a small amount of what historically the DOD had for Gulf War Illness Research.  That is when the effort was made to use the CDMRP DOD program to help.  That effort has worked but with very small amounts of funding.  The efforts were targetted in the appropriate direction. 

The investment made has been productive and each year the program has received more grant/proposals for funding.  The proposals have now almost tripled in numbers, we have gotten the researchers from around the world interested.  Researchers that have applied are not VA researchers and not DOD researchers but medical researchers that want to help the gulf war veterans to get answers and help in the form of specific diagnosis, biomarkers, but most of all TREATMENT!  The Gulf War Veterans 90-91 ie Desert Storm and all the other operational names DESERVE NO LESS!

WE need phone calls to Senators DC offices now!  Call, fax, email and be persistent!  To all of the US SENATORS!  Pay particular attention to those serving on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

There are more details to be shared but the basic message is we need money appropriated in the SENATE Defense Appropriations Bill for the DOD CDMRP specifically and seperately for Gulf War Illness as recommended by the VA RAC GWI ie 40 million was requested.  WE are years behind in making a REAL difference in the lives of the Gulf War Veterans of 90-91 specifically caused by delay and denial.

Interestingly the Senate included at least that amount for Senator Kennedy library funds.  And I am sure we could dig into the bill and find other funds that could be altered. In fact some of the other 27 projects are able to get funding from NIH and other research funding where Gulf War illness can not! The Gulf War Veterans were made ill not by choice but by our service in war by war time exposures and the DOD still must do their part.  The Senators need to be told we want answers, we want to be diagnosed correctly and completely and we want to find treatment.

No more rat mazes and no more excuses.  No more mislabelling or putting apples with oranges to confuse the issue.

And we want our death registries and diagnosed illness registries for Gulf War Veterans of 1990-91.  How hard is it to find out by unit for example the 101st-how many deaths, ages, causes and what diagnosed illnesses have been found in members of each unit?  It is not that hard you have the Social security numbers…you could get the death data for each unit.  Then again use the Social security numbers to find the unit member data from those that have gone to the VA, Tricare, and then ask the ones that have gone private physicians to submit their information!!!

If you need help hire us ill gulf war veterans and family members with the expertise needed!

ANY VETERANS WITH MORE FILM OF DEMOLISHED BUNKERS?  It was the veterans with the tape of Kamishyea bunkers that provided the spark of truth to begin in the ninties.  So if you have evidence be very careful we have learned our lessons.  But do not deny your fellow ill gulf war veterans the information that might help all!

In Maj Hebert’s testimony he reminded us all we took an oath to protect against all foreign and domestic enemies.  Who is our enemy now with SADDAM GONE and our troops leaving Iraq?  Our history as a nation includes Atomic Veterans, Civilians on Islands Near the Atomic testing, Nuclear Plant workers, and Agent Orange Veterans IT IS TIME TO Have the Gulf War Veterans Diagnosed and Treated! 

IT is past time for Answers and help!  Seems we have not really learned the lessons of the past or we would not have the latest OIF/OEF veterans with burn pit and other exposures hearing the same words of "we will not leave any stone unturned and we will get you care at the VA."