Many people believe all Vietnam veterans injured in the war receive health care from Veterans Administration hospitals. This is not true.
Veterans who served offshore Vietnam are denied health care and lost-wage compensation for any disease or disability caused by Agent Orange/dioxin. These veterans are dying of the same conditions as troops who served on land, from the cancers, diabetes and heart diseases related to dioxin poisoning, but they are not eligible for the same VA benefits. This is an issue the American public needs to know about so they can demand their congressional representatives support legislation currently before the House and Senate. We must end this travesty.
Only the American public can bring the needed changes by demanding their United States senators and representatives vote for SB1629 and HR 3612, the Agent Orange Equity Act of 2011, which will help solve the problems of the Vietnam veterans that served off shore, while they are still alive.
Dennis L. Franklin
Camas
