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The Faces of Agent Orange: A Town Hall Meeting to Raise Awareness
October
is Agent Orange Awareness Month, and the New Jersey State Council of
the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) will hold a town hall meeting on Sunday , Oct.27, 2013
at the Manville, NJ VFW Hall to educate veterans and the public on the
many faces of the toxic defoliant and its lasting legacy of illness and
health problems.
Millions
of American soldiers were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam
War, and many have suffered and continue to suffer from cancer,
neurological diseases and other maladies because of the
dioxin-containing compound. But Agent Orange also has taken a terrible
toll on the children and grandchildren of our veterans.
“Today,
more than five decades after the spraying began in the war, birth
defects, cancer and other illnesses are still appearing in the
descendants of veterans,” said Dennis Beauregard, New Jersey State
Council President. “These are innocent victims. Veterans, their
families and the public need to know the Agent Orange facts so that we
can get victims the help they deserve.”
The
Town Hall meeting in Manville will provide the latest information on
Agent Orange’s use in Vietnam, the health problems that have followed
and the ways that veterans, their children and their families can cope
and get aid.
The Town Hall meeting will be held at VFW Post 2290, 600 Washington Avenue, Manville, NJ, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., October 27, 2013.
Contact: Mike Eckstein, Chair, Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee NJSC VVA at:
More
information on Agent Orange and its toxic consequences can also be
found at the special Agent Orange section of the VVA’s website, http://www.vva.org/Committees/
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