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17. I felt so helpless .... he was one of the first cases where his brain cancer was ruled 100%

Reply to polly7 (Reply #15)

Thu May 26, 2016, 01:57 PM

May 2016

.... service related and thanx to the congressperson's vet outreach the VA did everything they
could but his cancer was much like Ted Kennedy's in that it could not be cured because the
tumor was wrapped around much of the brain tissue.

The real # of troops who died because of the Iraq war and or will die because of what happened
there is > 4,862 KIAs that are listed for Iraq war 2.

KBR burn pits = haliburtom = $$ to Dick Cheney.

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I was able to help him w/our one term dem congress critter .... he had his brain cancer ruled ... Botany May 2016 #14

What you did for him I'm sure meant everything to him at that time. polly7 May 2016 #15

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