-This WEB Page updated 10-15-07
It is our dream that we can prevent the Veterans of the Afghanistan, Kosovo, Kuwait and Iraq Campaigns from being given the same shabby treatment given to the Veterans of our Atomic Weapons Test Programs and Vietnam Veterans that were exposed to Agent Orange!
THIS IS A VETERAN CRITICAL ISSUE – IT IS NON POLITICAL
Congressman Bob Filner, a true Veteran’s
friend, introduced HR3794 and HR3795
on October 10, 2007 to provide proper
medical research into cures for the
horrendous diseases being caused by
our use of Depleted Uranium in the
Gulf Wars. Plus, finally, 4 decades
late, take care of the over 100,000
Widows of the Atomic Veterans killed
by A-Bomb induced cancers.
WE MUST STOP OUR DOD AND VA FROM CREATING
ANOTHER GENERATION OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS!
These two bills must be passed and even though Congressman Filner is now Chairman of the committee managing the bills:
HE MUST HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF CONGRESSIONAL CO-SPONSORS FOR THEM TO PASS AND BECOME LAW.
The Veterans, and their wives, of the Afghanistan, Kosovo, Kuwait and Iraq Campaigns are strongly encouraged to join the AMVETS Organization and help gain passage of Congressman Filner’s legislation. Of the 3 major Veteran's Service Organizations, we are the only one striving to insure that Legislation is Passed by Congress to prevent a recurrence of this injustice.
These Veterans must be given life
long medical care to offset the debilitating
cancers that can occur in later life,
as well as other diseases yet unknown,
caused by exposure to the debilitating
health hazards and cancers created
by our use of Depleted Uranium (DU)
ammunitions in these Campaigns.
- - Note: - - See the British WEB
site at www.llrc.org and click on
the “Uranium/WDU” link
for cage rattling, eye opening information.
You’ll never see this in our Media or Press!
THERE WERE OVER 415,000 PEOPLE (208,000
Military and 207,000 Civilian) INVOLVED
IN OUR ATMOSPHERIC ATOMIC BOMB TEST
PROGRAMS.
(Another 220,000 were exposed at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki)
MOST OF THEM (58%) DIED FROM CANCER
BEFORE REACHING AGE 45 THE VA DENIED
ALL BUT A PITIFUL HANDFUL MEDICAL
CARE!
Were you or any of your family, friends
or associates ever exposed at these
Atomic Blasts?
Did any of you develop cancer? If
so, this is a "MUST READ"!!
IT COULD BE WORTH $75,000 TO YOU!!
Documented proof exists of deliberate cover up by Top Government Officials, Top Brass and the DVA, their falsification of records, outright lies about Ship's histories and directed denial of medical care by the DVA for service connected cancers caused by radiation exposure and plutonium ingestion. Most of the Vets involved in the Atomic Bomb tests died a pitifully slow and painful death before they were 45. They came home, were discharged, got a decent job, bought a used car, married, had a few kids and bought a home. Then they developed the cancers. In those days, most men didn't have medical insurance coverage. The costs ran them broke and they died for lack of proper care. Worst of all, they died knowing they had left their families destitute.
Our government has lied to us since the very beginning of the reporting on radiation effects of Atomic Bombs. – Immediately after the end of the war in the Pacific, they placed a group of eminent scientists and lab personnel aboard a ship with tons of equipment and dispatched them to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to do studies and file reports on the extent of damage, level of radiation and expected casualties from the Atomic Bombs that blew these two cities off the face of this earth. This report was to be used as a basis of radiation levels received by both the Japanese citizens of these cities and most importantly, our own POWs and troops who served in the occupation and/or were transported through these cities. –
These scientists, their Lab crews
and all of their equipment were still
aboard ship, 1500 miles away from
Japan when they read the report and
results of their studies in Stars
And Stripes!!! These “results”
are still used today by the DTRA as
the basis for determination by the
VA of veteran’s radiation exposure
level to deny the vast majority of
medical disability claims for cancer
and other illnesses resulting from
their exposure to Atomic radiation
and fallout. - - - The PC word for
these reports is “Flawed modeling”!
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This cover-up, deceit and denial has
been so incredibly successful that
fewer than 1 out of 1,000 of the 428,000
exposed Veterans have been able to
successfully file claims and receive
compensation for their cancers.
THAT CAN’T BE CHANGED!!! BUT
– THE WIDOWS AND FEW REMAINING
VETS CAN BE COMPENSATED. -
In 1997, the secret warehouse of the
specially created “Atomic Medical
Records Division” was discovered.
These secret medical files proved
that the DOD and DVA knew full well
what the hazards and long term health
consequences were from exposure to
radiation and plutonium ingestion.
- -(See Shaw Pittman law suit filed
in Washington D. C. Federal Court
October 29, 2002.)
Congressman Bob Filner wrote two bills
in November of 2005,
HR4183 & HR4184, that would have
changed this.
HR4183 charged and funded the Department
of Justice with going to these records,
obtaining our old service numbers,
converting them to Social Security
numbers and going directly to the
Widows, few surviving Veterans and
paying them!!
HR4184 expanded this program to cover and demand immediate medical coverage, for Gulf Wars Veterans of today. Further it ordered independent civilian medical research into cures for diseases caused by their exposure to the aftermath of using Depleted Uranium (DU).
THE MICRO FINE NANO PARTICULATE MATTER FROM EXPENDED DU MUNITIONS ARE AS MUCH OR MORE OF A LONG TERM HEALTH HAZARD THAN RADIATION FROM ATOMIC BOMBS.
The bills died in Congressman Duncan Hunter’s committee but Congressman Filner is now the Chairman of the committee and upgraded and reintroduced these bills for us on October 10, 2007.
They are now HR3794 and HR3795.
THESE VETS and WIDOWS DESPERATELY
NEED OUR HELP – NOW!!!
I’m asking you,,, no,,, I’M
BEGGING YOU to ask your Congressman
to help!!
Congressman Filner recently gained
passage for his legislation that is
of great benefit to the WWII Merchant
Marines. It went on the floor with
224 Co-Sponsors, benefited by the
efforts of the little known Merchant
Marine’s Association in gaining
these Co-Sponsors!! – IF THAT
LITTLE ASSOCIATION CAN DO SO MUCH,
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE FOR
AMVETS TO DO LESS.
Go to their local offices and vigorously encourage them to come on board and help our service men and women avoid the same shabby treatment given to our Atomic Veterans and Vietnam Veterans. They must be encouraged to cosponsor these bills. Without a large number of cosponsors, they simply will never gain enough votes on the floor of the house to pass.
OUR DESERT STORM AND ALL GULF WARS
VETERANS ARE A MEDICAL TIME BOMB.
OUR GOVERNMENT IS TELLING THE SAME KIND OF LIES THEY TOLD THE VICTIMS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB TESTING. They’re even using some of the same companies that were used to generate phony reports about radiation Atomic Veterans received. Reports were fabricated from false or non existent data! My own crew aboard the USS Davison, a Destroyer used in Operation Sandstone, were told we received more radiation from a dental X-Ray than we received from the Atomic Bombs we used at Sandstone to blow three islands to smithereens!
-- - - Rhetorical Question. - - -
Should I sue my dentist for the cancers
I developed?? - -
- Just a note. - I would have been
dead long, long ago if I hadn’t
been able to afford excellent care
for my cancers.
In 1990, Congress passed a revision to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) of 1988 as a very belated attempt to rectify the injustice and anguish caused by the VA’s refusal to give the Atomic Veterans the medical coverage they deserved. -- The DVA was given administration of the law and it became the best kept secrets in the nation. – Little or no effort has ever been expended by the government to locate and inform the veterans, widows or orphans of their rights under this law.
These men died serving their country.
Most of their widows are on minimum
Social Security and are hungry by
the end of the month.