From my eMail Inbox this morning:
ATTN: All State Council Presidents
At the Agent Orange & Other Toxic Exposure Cmte meeting and then again at the Govt Affairs Cmte meeting in Silver Spring last week we were presented with extraordinary documents that were once classified and now reveal the federal governments across agency effort to deny any causal relationship between the exposure to Agent Orange (at any level) with veteran illnesses, disabilities, and tragically the impact on the progeny of Vietnam Veterans.
I am forwarding these documents to every State Council President and begging each of you to send these documents to every Vietnam Veteran in your state including all of your chapters, officers, and their families.
If every Vietnam Veteran reads these reports and comes to understand the magnitude of their findings – we can raise our voices once again to Congress, the President, and the VA and Dept of Defense – that we have been systematically and purposefully lied to for decades – and our children have suffered as a result.
We would also like to have this shared with every State Director of Veterans Affairs so that each state is informed and activated. The medical costs of the disabilities of so many Vietnam Veterans and their progeny are an economic and social impact in every state. We hope that every State Legislature will take up this cause and pass state resolutions calling for Congress to act.
These documents have been verified and confirmed by others who participated in this work.
We are now on the hunt for additional documents and materials referenced in this report that are essential to our case.
If you have any questions regarding this material, please contact the VVA office and/or Herb Worthington/Chairman of the Agent Orange and Other Toxic Exposures national cmte for VVA. He is and will remain the point man on this mission.
We now have DRAFT legislation that we are finalizing that will go to our champions on the Hill. Once that is ready we will again send this out to every Vietnam Veteran and their families and ask them to immediately contact their members of Congress and insist it be passed and fully implemented.
Ric Davidge, Chairman, Govt Affairs Cmte
907 229 5328
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