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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Veterans or dependents of veterans with questions or concerns regarding the Agent Orange issue should contact this division of the department for assistance.
The White House was deeply concerned that the Federal Government would be placed in the position of paying compensation to veterans suffering diseases related to Agent Orange and, moreover, feared that providing help to Vietnam veterans would set the precedent of having the U.
VA had recognized chloracne as service connected for Vietnam veterans based on exposure to Agent Orange for many years prior to the enactment of this legislation.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Agent Orange Victims and Widows Support Network is promoting the crafting of quilts to draw widespread national attention to the plight of the Vietnam Veterans affected by Agent Orange sprayed on them in Vietnam.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Our Vietnam era veterans still suffer from exposure to Agent Orange while a new generation of veterans are reeling from depleted uranium.
We are aware that many other injustices have been perpetrated on Vietnam veterans, but at this time, the matter of Agent Orange is the only injustice for which we have court decisions and federal legislation to back our claims.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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This despite evidence within the chemical companies that dioxin, the most toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, was responsible for health problems in laboratory animals and workers at the plants that produced the chemical.
Agent Orange contained dioxin, a chemical whose risks have been a matter of heated debate but one that many toxicologists now consider among the most hazardous of industrial substances.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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The VA recently promulgated a directive to offer veterans who served in the Republic of Korea during 1968 and 1969 the same Agent Orange Registry examination currently provided to veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era.
Agent Orange was sprayed in Vietnam during the 1960s to kill dense jungle growth that provided cover for the Viet Cong military forces.
Evans requested the Agent Orange Registry include the Fort Drum veterans after an admission by the Department of the Army that testing of the herbicide was conducted there during 1959.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The CDC, meanwhile, continues to perpetrate the scientifically flawed myth that Agent Orange and dioxin posed no health threats to Vietnam veterans.
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