Tag: Agent Orange

Toxicology expert Dr. Leonard Ritter will lead an independent panel that will investigate Ontario's use of the now-banned herbicide 2,4,5-T over three decades, the government announced Friday.

MANITOULIN—A decade before US choppers doused Vietnamese jungles with a cancer-causing defoliant dubbed Agent Orange, hydro workers from Manitoulin were not only blithely applying the stuff to the brush along transmission corridors but practically bathing in the toxic tincture.

To cope with the sorrow of losing my husband Greg Davis, I made a film “Agent Orange – a personal requiem”. His death, thought to be brought by Agent Orange, was the reason I became aware and involved in the issue. This scholarship is inspired by the thought that even in the deepest of sorrow, there still is hope as long as we humans help each other.

Edgar made his comments at San Francisco State University's Commonwealth Club, which, last weekend, hosted an hour-long discussion titled "Addressing the Legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam". Participants to the discussion were told that Edgar had pushed legislation to help veterans impacted by Agent Orange and now, his focus is on the people of Vietnam.

The VA published their new policy that will hopefully add some peace to the recent Agent Orange strife. Previous policy concerning military members who served near the DMZ between North and South Korea was very limiting. The only thing clear about it was the dates under which a veteran could claim they were exposed.

ALBANY -- Disabled Army veteran Susan Frasier rides an overnight Greyhound bus alone each month to Washington, D.C., to walk the halls of Congress in search of elected officials who will support her where the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and federal courts have not.

The Vietnam War is a sore spot in the memories of many American citizens. From 1955 to 1975, the United States found itself entrenched in a war of unrecognizable proportions. Due to the unprecedented tactical disadvantages faced by American soldiers, action had to be taken to level the playing field, ultimately crippling the guerrilla warfare tactics held by members of the Vietnamese military. The solution? Agent Orange, an herbicidal chemical extensively used to eradicate jungle flora throughout the Vietnamese countryside. Often used at levels upwards of 50 times the recommended usage, Agent Orange decimated fields and jungles alike.

Fort Detrick has released a preliminary archive search report on its past Agent Orange use as the Kristen Renee Foundation began to ramp up its efforts to prove that the Army post caused a cancer cluster in Frederick. According to the report, which was posted online Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found that Fort Detrick tested an estimated 16.82 pounds of Agent Orange and similar defoliants between 1944 and 1951.

Monsanto has agreed to help clean-up a quarry in South Wales it is accused of polluting with a cocktail of toxic substances despite consistently refusing to accept liability, the Ecologist can reveal. But the taxpayer could still end up meeting the estimated £2 million clean-up bill.

How long does it take to get a decision to help a veteran that is alive, how many times back through the system to get the correct decision, and then how long does a surviving widow have to plead the case to fulfill the promises made to veterans by this government! So I call now for sustained action by all veterans, their family members, their friends, and the citizens of this country...Show it through twitter activity every day!

Parkinson's Disease has been an issue of concern for Vietnam Veterans but the concern on pesticide (organophosphates) exposure and Gulf War Veterans should be tracked closely for rate of occurrence in the next generation of veterans. Developments in this research also highlights the need to examine mitrochrondial damage in the Gulf war veterans.

Nearly 41 years after leaving the chemically infested and war-torn jungles of Vietnam behind and more than four years after his death from cancer, Grass Valley native Paul Orlandi found justice, thanks to his wife and a doctor who waged a war of their own.

Veterans Affairs Department officials say they can now see an end to the long nightmare of an ever-growing mountain of disability and compensation claims that has long infuriated veterans and their families.

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Updated list of Ships with exposure to Agent Orange - Blue Water Navy has updated its list...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. A Government Witch Hunt for Veterans Begins Anew—A scare report in Stars and Stripes by Leo Shane...

We the undersigned share with nearly two-thirds of our fellow Americans the conviction that our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be ended and...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. In 2010, More U.S. Service Members Took Their Own Lives Than Were Killed in Combat. After noting that...

As the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA) made significant steps last year in improving the ludicrous regulations for veterans obtaining disability...

Urgent alert for both Agent Orange and Desert Storm Veterans. Editor's note: The enclosed medical research has a focus on male Testerone and Diabetes(Insulin).  As...

U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller (Rep-Fla) is a former real estate broker and deputy sheriff who is now the new chairman of the House Veterans...

UK Gulf War Veterans still ill just as US veterans and other coalition forces. Waiting for their governments to care for them in a timely manner. What is the reason for the delay. It has been 20 years and many thousands have died.

- Veterans-For-Change, Inc. NEWS The VA and Toxins: See No Evil, Cure No Evil (via 91outcomes.com) – The military medical corps in the various branches have...

(via 91outcomes.com) - The military medical corps in the various branches have been responsible for some of the great leaps forward in treating battle...

This is just the beginning. You may think that nine years after troops were sent into Afghanistan that this would be close to the...

Environmental factors associated with lung cancer are grossly underestimated. At the direction of Congress, the Institute of Medicine began studying the health impact of Gulf War exposure to depleted uranium, the residue left after nuclear-grade uranium is extracted. Like radon, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer, depleted uranium, used in weapons and armor shielding, can give off radioactive products of decay that can be carcinogenic. While the first Institute of Medicine report in 2000 found insufficient evidence of a definite link to lung cancer, the 2008 update report now assigns “high priority” to continued review of the link with lung cancer. The institute has also been reviewing the impact of exposure to fuel exhausts, smoke from burning oil wells, kerosene cookers and heaters in enclosed tents and other battlefield emissions. The “strongest finding” was the association of combustion products and lung cancer.

The Gulf War Illness Research Funds current information is that in the FY 2011 Omnibus DOD Appropriations currently under consideration there is funding for Gulf War Illness Research. This measures provides $8 million for the Peer Reviewed Gulf War Illness Research Program and $3.8 million for the ALS Therapy Development Institute Gulf War Research Project. This funding is directed to DOD CDMRP(Department of Defense Congressionally Direct Medical Research Program) .

(SALEM / PARIS) - I think the new film Idiot Cycle that delivers the good on the world's top cancer causing culprits, could easily...

Via Dan Cedusky's Veterans' Issues: Below is the intro to a 36 page PDF file.  Go to web site above for extensive info on Agent...

Reflections on the Midterm Election in relation to Veteran Issues Veterans are you aware you lost a fighter for veterans' health issues?  No matter your...

Gulf War Veterans dying at an early age and the public does not seem to care. The mainstream media ignores veterans after the war. Impact in an election year?

- The Horror - By Michael Ricciardi - writer, naturalist, multi-media artist - in PlanetSave We have chosen to narrow the sample to the post-World War II...

- Following a string of successes ranging from PTSD to expanded Agent Orange presumtives, the fight to creating new veteran-friendly agencies continues. Faster than...

- Traitors like U.S. Sens. James Webb and Richard Burr aside consciousness is flowering amid tragedy - By Susan V. Berresford, convener of the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      VA To Review Agent Orange Claims Submitted By "Brown Water" Vets. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (9/30, Cole)...

- Veterans Affairs Secy. Eric Shinseki strongly defended his controversial decision last year to add ischemic heart disease. Former VA Secy.  (2001-05) and current Pfizer...

I urge all Veterans and their supporters to contact Senator Richard Burr, Senator Jim Webb and all the other politicians that want to balance...

- Watching C-SPAN 3's telecast of the hearing on VA Disability Compensation, Presumptive Disability Decision-Making  by the United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs is an...

- Update: See VA defends Agent Orange, heart disease links against Sen Webb.  WATCH LIVE as we hope VA Secretary Shinseki tells the bureaucrats Senators Webb...

Diagnosed Illnesses in Veterans Needs More Transparency As I compile this information from other sources, I hope that it keeps our readers updated and that...

- Veterans for Common Sense thanks VA Secretary Shinseki for moving forward with presumptives for Vietnam War veterans - Via Veterans for Common Sense  Veterans for Common...

- Hearing Thursday (September 23) United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Oversight Hearing:  VA Disability Compensation:  Presumptive Disability Decision-Making. VA Secretary Shinseki should publicly blast...

 - The Dept of Veterans Affairs should clarify what a new, second Agent Orange claim contract is all about. Will VA and IBM be ready...