"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. -General William T. Sherman
I have several things I'm service connected for. Bone/joint stuff. My left foot breaks all the time, skin issues, hearing loss, tinnitus, PTSD. Like Bruce I was also given experimental and under-tested drugs like those for malaria and and various vaccines, at least one of which the congress ended up banning. I think my skin problems come from a combination of exposure to burn pits and various chemicals and the environment of the various countries I've been deployed to. Look, the intention of Agent orange was not to directly kill or wound the enemy. That's what a weapon is, something which I can shoot or stab you in the face. comparing this to mustard gas is rediculous, have you ever seen what that does? Is it horrible that it turned out this way, sure. However this was no more a chemical warfare situation than all the cases of asbestos exposure, or that to uranium like Bruce mentioned, something that I'm sure we've both been exposed to n large amounts (yes I played mech infantry for a while, hated it but I did it.)/ On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > While not as drastic as cancer I am a winner with hair-loss, chronic joint > pain, back issues, PTSD and insomnia from four deployments. Hair-loss and > joint pain are from Desert Storm and my back, PTSD and sleep issues from > the other deployments to Iraq and the 'Stan. No one said winning was easy. > > I am not discounting the issues that veterans from 'Nam have. I have > nothing but mad respect for those men and women who fought there, > especially grunts. It sucks that they had to endure having chemicals > dropped on them by our own people, but as I said before the US has a nasty > habit of trying things out in war, even it it's on us. It is what it is. > > > > On Aug 9, 2012, at 7:08 PM, "Eric Roberts" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So would that make you a winner with leukemia or other cancers? > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353592 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
