VA Expected To Move Soon To Cover More Effects Of Agent Orange

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Article Date: 11 Jan 2010 - 0:00 PST

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The Department of Veterans Affairs may need to pay heavily to treat veterans who have been adversely affected by Agent Orange. McClatchy/Beaufort (S.C.) Gazette report: "The cost of war -- on veterans' health and taxpayer wallets -- will loom a little larger in the new year when the Department of Veterans Affairs issues a final rule to claim adjudicators to presume three more diseases of Vietnam veterans, including heart disease, were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The rule, expected to be published soon, will make almost any veteran who set foot in Vietnam, and is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, B cell leukemia or ischemic heart disease (known also as coronary artery disease), eligible for disability compensation and VA medical care. The exception would be if credible evidence surfaces of a non-service cause for the ailment" (Philpott, 1/7).

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Die Or Drop It

posted by Raymond Mills on 10 Dec 2011 at 6:43 am

1968 quangtri 1/4 3 marines.3051 warehouseman,what a joke 2 purple hearts later,ptsd,nerve damage,brain damage,seizures 80%left ear hearing loss.kidney removed 2005,denied agent orange,ha'ha'still no comp.who are we dying for.

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Goal of va is to deny deny deny

posted by Joe on 8 Dec 2011 at 11:07 pm

All the va does is find every way possible to deny Vietnam vet claims. You have some two bit civilian, most who have never served in the military deciding whether, or not, compensation is approved. To make matters worse, they are rewarded for denying claims. We got spit on when we returned, now we,re being spit in, again, by the va.

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Agent Orange/PTSD

posted by Anon on 26 Jan 2010 at 9:14 am

My husband was in Viet Nam in 1967-68 at the age of 18. He was in the Big Red One on the front lines, and carried the radio on his back. One day 32 guys went out and only 6 came back. He was one of them. Talk about traumatized! Whenever he watches war movies, especially of Viet Nam, he says to me "you just don't know what it's like until you are there going through all of that stuff".

He luckily came home in one piece. When we married in 1969, he would have nightmares, and I would be awaken by him swinging at me. He didn't know what he was doing. One night some years later, after swinging at me, he knocked the TV over onto the floor. He has so much bottled up inside, and I think he drinks at night to forget. Also, he was there when Agent Orange was sprayed. He has so many problems, but luckily he goes to the VA for medical.

My point is that no one ever took care of Viet Nam vets for these things when they first came home. Now, all of the sudden all the new vets are getting the help and attention. My husband is now 61, but has never been, to my knowledge, treated for any of his problems. Where's his compensation?

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