WASHINGTON, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Legion is standing by its call for benefits to be awarded to Blue Water Navy veterans of the Vietnam War who are suffering health problems associated with exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The Legion's reaffirmation of its position comes in the wake of a new report on the issue from the private, nonprofit Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. As it stands, health-care benefit and compensation claims against Agent Orange exposure are recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from certain Vietnam War veterans who served "in the Republic of Vietnam" on the ground or in boats cruising interior waterways, but not from those stationed on board ships offshore or who flew aircraft...
To the Editor: I am U.S. Navy retired with 22 years active service; also, a Vietnam Veteran with four ship board deployments to Vietnam waters, known as the combat zone.
If a home health aide didn't visit his Little Ferry apartment, Paul Auerbach would be in a nursing home -- without his wife or the aroma of her lasagna wafting through their home. The 60-year-old Vietnam War veteran suffers from congestive heart failure and diabetes, and lost his legs to a bone marrow disorder that he believes is related to Agent Orange exposure.
Sitting stiffly on a wooden bench in an open-sided concrete front room in a working-class section of Da Nang, the sad young woman acknowledges her visitors but does not return their smiles. Chickens softly cluck from the room behind. On her lap is a child in a pink knit hat, little feet waving in the air. She tells the interpreter the boy, Minh, is 5, but tiny white socks sag around ankles that should belong to an infant.
WEST JORDAN -- Disabled Vietnam veteran Paul House needed his cancerous prostate removed because of potential exposure to Agent Orange on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. But the West Jordan man also says his wartime experiences serving as an infantryman in Cuchi Province left him suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, although a claim he filed several years ago relating to PTSD was rejected because his service record contained nothing indicating that he'd been in combat.
FREDERICK, Md. - A West Virginia man is receiving compensation from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for exposure to Agent Orange during military service at Maryland's Fort Detrick. Sixty-eight-year-old Gary Abram served at Fort Detrick from November 1962 to 1964. Abram says he received a letter from the VA in 2008 that acknowledged the Department of Defense had spray- tested substances, including Agent Orange, at Fort Detrick while he was there.
RALEIGH, N.C. - By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos. The jaunt didn't make for much of a war story . But the man successfully argued that he may have been exposed to Agent Orange during his stopover and that it might have caused his diabetes - even though decades of research into the defoliant have failed to find more than a possibility that it causes the disease.
During the Vietnam War, Peter Fenn of the Town of Aurora was a medic and, like many American service members, was exposed to dangerously high levels of Agent Orange. More than 30 years later, complications from that exposure forced doctors to amputate his left leg below the knee. A lifelong lover of golf, Fenn quickly became involved with the Eastern Amputee Golf Association, which allows amputees from throughout the region to network and play the game together. Thursday, for the third time in as many years, Fenn organized the Buffalo Amputee Golf Classic.
During four years in the Marine Corps, Tena Quackenbush learned the military creed that no fallen comrade gets left behind. Today, she's living that creed as she cares for Scott Burns, disabled from his exposure to Agent Orange during his service in the Navy during the Vietnam War era. It's an unlikely pairing: Tena, 44, the bartender from Wisconsin, and Scott, 56, the disabled vet from Illinois. They were neighbors in a low-income apartment complex on University Drive, near South Academy Boulevard and Airport Road.
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