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Update on Agent Orange

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I say, God bless the work of VVA and its diligent band of advocates. Without these tireless men and women, the doors may well have never opened for like kind claims.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) releases Agent Orange research results

PRESS RELEASE
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 24, 2009

No. 09-24

Contact:
Mokie Porter
301-996-0901

VVA to VA: Don’t Wait for Us to Die: Grant Association to Agent Orange Exposure For Parkinson’s, Heart Disease, Hypertension

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – After reviewing scientific studies of the past few years, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences has determined there is “limited or suggestive evidence” of an association between Parkinson’s disease and ischemic heart disease with exposure to Agent Orange.

“We thank the IOM for their efforts and applaud them for their conclusions,” said John Rowan, National President of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA). “Now, we urge the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to immediately make Vietnam veterans with either of these conditions eligible for disability compensation as well as health care, and we will petition him to do precisely this.

“We also urge the Secretary to reconsider hypertension, which the IOM, in its 2006 report concerning Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange, also found elevated evidence of an association,” Rowan said.

“We do believe that the IOM must focus on what we consider to be the very real association between a veteran’s exposure while serving in Southeast Asia and the birth defects, learning disabilities, and cancers, not only in his children but in his grandchildren as well,” Rowan said. “We continue to get far too many calls from the children of veterans who wonder if their father’s experiences in Vietnam-and along the demilitarized zone in Korea in 1968 and 1969-has any connection with their health issues and now those of their children.

“Let’s not wait until we die, and for our children to be forgotten,” Rowan said. “The time for real action is now.”

8 thoughts on “Update on Agent Orange”

  2. It is  my pleasure  Elmo. I too have been impacted by Agent Orange.
    I enjoy being of service and hope these postings continue in that vein.
    Have you seen the movie “Unnatural Causes” starring John Ritter? It is the true story of how Agent Orange claims came to be accepted.  Very moving film.  All Agent Orange legislation laid the groundwork for the claims backward and forward in time. From Lou Gehrigs’ Disease to the current IOM research on Depleted Uranium, we can credit the pioneers in Agent Orange legislation. Especially Vietnam Veterans of  America.

  3. Husband has Agent Orange and its real deadly.Melanoma Cancer and Veterans Affairs Will Not Claim. Ralph has all  other Effects from AO Chemicals and he wants to see the Melanoma Cancer put on the Veterans / Agent Orange List.
    Need all the Help we can get.
    Jo Ann Stalter / Wife and Caregiver
    122 Miller Dr
    Hampton, Va. 23666
    litehousegrannie@aol.com

  4. Jo Ann,
    I am so sorry to hear of  your husbands health problems. And may God give you all the energy both physical and spiritual you need to be a caregiver.
    Call the Vietnam Veterans of America at 1-800- VVA-1316 and tell them you want a Service Officer in your area. And tell their legislative liaison about your desire to get melanoma on the list of illnesses.

    1. Thank you, I did and no one listens, our Senators and Congressmen, just let it go by. Its sad, but Ralph is a Fighter. 2003 they gave him 8 weeks and he is still a Fighter.
      I appreciate everyone advice, I have done everything.
      Thanks,
      Jo Ann/ Wife and Caregiver of the Best Husband

  6. What about the Blue Water Navy on Pages 46-47 and the first bellet-point in the conclusiobs section.

    Dioxin in our drinking water……… no kidding!

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