Returning vet says Gulf War Syndrome still a problem

TO STEVE MENDOZA AND OTHER VETS SUFFERING FROM GULF WAR ILLNESS: Please look at the website: www.immed.org
The Chief researcher, Dr. Garth Nicolson, has been able to help many Vets recover from whatever it was that infected you and soldiers from other countries.

Extract of official Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, as announced 3 years ago. Main conclusion is that the ailments reported by Gulf War vets are all common in general population, with a higher incidence possibly due to post-traumatic stress, and mass hysterical reaction due to widespread reports of there being such a syndrome:

"Sept. 12, 2006 -- A government advisory panel on Tuesday said it could find no evidence of a 'Gulf War syndrome' afflicting U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq and Kuwait in the early 1990s, though it did affirm that combat veterans do suffer increased rates of many individual ailments.

The conclusion was a blow to veterans who maintain that exposures to pesticides, weapons residues, or other chemicals caused a set of symptoms unique to their service in Operation Desert Storm. The symptoms included fatigue, memory loss, severe headaches, and respiratory and skin ailments, which interfered with normal daily activities.

Those symptoms and others have penetrated the American lexicon as 'Gulf War syndrome.' But experts convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said that their review of 850 studies shows it doesn't exist.

While studies show that Gulf War veterans are at higher risk than nondeployed soldiers for a variety of illnesses, "the results of that research indicate that ... there is not a unique symptom complex (or syndrome) in deployed Gulf War veterans," the report stated."

One aspect of this that was not mentioned was how the children of Gulf War vets suffered from birth defects. I was a helicopter crewman over there and my first daughter was born with glaucoma.

I don't care if a disease is recognized or not, when we send people off to fight for us it is our duty as non-soldiers to take care of them on their return for whatever ails them. They risked their lives for us for god's sake! It doesn't matter if you support the war or not, the fact is that if they didn't volunteer to join the service and fight then it would've been you or I over there as result of a draft.

as well as anti-war protestors.

My show of appreciation to the troops.

My husband was in Desert Shield and Desert Storm at the beginning. He had shots, had to put on full gear a few times and served without complaint.
He died last year of Lung Cancer, only reason was "smoking", no one would listen to his exposure in the war. He had on-going skin issues, treated at the VA. I have tried several places to give information so he can be included in statistics, and have been turned away, stating "we need to speak to the veteran himself"., even after I said "HE DIED". I support our troops every day and pray for them , but feel there needs to be someone who will listen and take the information.

Steve is an excellent example of a local. I wish you and all Veterans on this Veterans' Day and every day the best!!! Now if non vets and immigrants could fathom the allegiance, sacrifices, and love for our country that we have...maybe life would be better. Wake up Mr. President...bring our forces home and let them deal with the gangs and take back our country that generations have worked so hard in building.

Silence and inactivity is failure and you must come out, Question Authority for those today - suffer GW illnesses !
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