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proverbialwisdom

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7. Related and recommended.
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 06:22 PM
Jun 2013
WARNING: Graphic, indelible, important.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/syndrome/veterans/hanson.html

http://du101.org/09/112995life/1195life1.html

THE TINY VICTIMS OF DESERT STORM
Has Our Country Abandoned Them?

LIFE Magazine
November 1995


...Then there is Hillary Rodham Clinton, the point person for an administration that, by pushing through a 1994 law mandating benefits for vets with symptoms, has cast itself as a friend of Gulf War syndrome sufferers. On August 14, at the opening session of the presidential advisory committee on the syndrome, she declared, "Just as we relied on our troops when they were sent to war, we must assure them that they can rely on us now."

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It appears the public might have a role to play in providing an assist to those in government fighting the good fight for affected individuals. See: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/13/whistleblower-alleges-veterans-affairs-cover-up/1979839/

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