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To quote the website: "Reply: What Agent Orange gets blamed for is a whole lot more than it can do.
Scientists have said that the immune issues they find in Vietnam vets are not the kind of thing that Dioxin would do." What scientists? What criteria do they use? The sources used in my work include the basics: National Academy of Sciences, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, USAF Operation Ranch Hand Study 2000, plus nearly 20,000 different veterans medical records reveiwed by me since becoming a veterans service officer.

I am interested in sharing. What I stated is a quote from a site, which raises issues that once again place doubt on Agent Orange residuals. Not in my mind, or most of those who visit the site. But in the minds of those who constantly work to deny the affect the chemical had on the Agent Orange exposed veteran. The link clearly stated as I copied it and pasted it "What Agent Orange gets blamed for is a whole lot more than it can do... Scientists have said that the immune issues they find in Vietnam vets are not the kind of thing that Dioxin would do." I respond what scientists, I now add, what is their research consisting of? A part of the research found in my studies comes from the 10-80 Committee which was a Vietnam national study done with the natives of the affected areas.

Those anti-Vietnam veteran sites are not going to disappear, so my wanting them to go away is a moot point. We worked for years to get what little recognition for the damage done to veterans (and others) by the government use of herbicides in Vietnam, Korea DMZ, Guam, Thailand and several other places.

I have no problem with issues of 2-butxoyethanol. I also have articles related to many cases of other conditions as well. It is just that this is an Agent Orange support forum and posting information which IMPLIES Agent Orange gets blamed for is a whole lot more than it can do" is exactly what I heard in the 1970's. This was when I first became involved in Agent Orange veterans cases.

I have written and published articles on: Benzene, Depleted Uranium, ionization radiation, non-ionization radiation, Undiagnosed Illness of PGW veterans, PTSD and a lot more. They are not posted on this site, they are posted elsewhere.
Please notice your article was not deleted, edited, moved or anything of that nature. It remains intact. I am not a censor. My statement to you is many people gave up careers to bring the Agent Orange issue to light. One was a VA employee of many years ago. Maude Victor a Veterans Benefit Councelor who assisted veterans in fighting the VA general response of Agent Orange claims, "just say no!" She was finally terminated. My own job was threatened in 1983 and 1984 over Agent Orange articles published in veterans newspapers and magazines.
I simply ask you not to try to take away what we worked so hard to obtain.