VETERANS STILL BATTLING VA OVER AGENT ORANGE ILLNESS
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:23 AM
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Subject: VETERANS STILL BATTLING VA OVER AGENT ORANGE ILLNESS
Less than 10% of claims are approved
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From: MilitaryReport
VETERANS STILL BATTLING VA OVER AGENT ORANGE ILLNESS
Fox News reports that many Vietnam veterans are still
trying to get compensation from the Veterans Administration for medical
conditions resulting from exposure to Agent Orange.
>From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed more
than 18 million gallons of the defoliant over Vietnam. The
VA accepts as policy that all 3.1 million veterans who
served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conflict were
exposed to Agent Orange. Under the Agent Orange Act of 1991, the VA
compensates victims and their families for conditions that, according to
scientific evidence, are at least as likely as not to result from exposure
to Agent
Orange. Yet of the 99,226 Agent Orange-related disability or survivorship
claims submitted to the Veterans
Administration, only 7,520 have been granted.
Tommy Dorris
5/4th Artillery
1/61st Inf.
Society of the 5th Division