Navy veterans need help getting politicians to act: PennLive letters

The main item that needs to be addressed by Congress when back in session is House Bill HR543, The Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Act. We vets need the American people to call their members of Congress and urge them to support this bill.  

Navy Vietnam veterans are the most-often denied for VA benefits because they served at sea not on land, yet are still infected and sick with Agent Orange. The deadly herbicide was in the air and in our drinking water at sea, a proven fact by the Institute Of  Medicine, which the VA ignores. 

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There is legislation in the House of Representatives, HR-543, that would re-establish Agent Orange benefits for these individuals following their removal by the Veterans Administration from coverage under the Agent Orange Act of 1991.

The VA denied them coverage because they did not have their "boots on ground" in Vietnam, as if the herbicide and its dioxin contaminant stayed completely out of the water and the air and off the thousands of tons of supplies that transited through Vietnam to the ships offshore

Please contact your representatives and tell them you support HR-543, The Blue Water Navy Veterans Act of 2013. Tell them you want HR-543 passed in this Congressional session.

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