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 Taken from CAUTION: Military Service May Be Hazardous To Your Health! by Joe Miller:
"Doctor, Mr. M.D., can you tell me what is wrong with me?"
BANG! You're dead - or you lost a limb, an eye, your genitals. You may end up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life, a visible (and probably unwelcome) reminder to your fellow citizens of the costs of war and military service.
What of those hidden hazards, those invisible "wounds"? Agent Orange, PTSD, then Gulf War Syndrome, and now the fears regarding the anthrax vaccine.... What about those health problems that don't show up in your exit physical, things that show up fifteen or twenty years later? What about the recent news that 8 to 10 percent of veterans treated at Veterans Affairs medical centers have hepatitis C - an infection rate some five times higher than the general population? Another news item in The New York Times, "Doctor's Quest Stirs Medical Debate" (September 19, 1999) provoked me to consider the possible source of my own long-term health problems.
February, 1968.... Read More
Also In This Issue:
- Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Army: Murder At Kent State by Bill Davis
- Chicago's Veterans Day: SOA, Torture, Political Prisoners, Veterans' Health Care by Joe Miller
- From the National Office by Joe Miller
- Notes From the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- Fort Benning Vigil To Close The SOA by John Poole
- CAUTION: Military Service May Be Hazardous To Your Health! by Joe Miller
- Rockford Veterans Day Commemoration by Stanley Campbell
- Victim of Torture Speaks by Dr. Orlando Tizon
- Statement By The Survivors Of Torture To The President Of The United States And To Members Of The National Security Council by Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Committee (TASSC)
- Army Apologizes To World War II Vet by Robert Burns
- "Rod" Kane Dies At 53; Wrote Book On Vietnam by Bart Barnes
- Gar Macarthur 1921-1999 by VVAW
- Brainwashing Busts Out At Cecil Field by Mike Woloshin
- My View: On Standdowns by John Zutz
- Summer Homeless Standdown Report by Alex Bonick and Hank Emerle
- An Interview with Bao Ninh: Part One by Marc Levy
- My View: On the Draft by John Zutz
- A Gift from the State by Horace Coleman
- Building A Raft At The Pond by Dave Connolly
- Let Nicaragua Live by Louis De Benedette
- Open Letter To The U.S. Congress by VVAW Clarence Fitch Chapter - NY/NJ
- Clarence Fitch Chapter Statement on Vieques by Dave Cline
- Support Kosovar People's Right To Self-Determination! by Barry Romo, Joe Miller and Bill Branson
- United States Touts War 12 Million Rally for Peace in Colombia by Alynne Romo
- U Of I Doctoral Graduate Made Political Prisoner by Wilfredo Rosario Gonzalez
- El Grito De Lares by Dr. José Solís Jordán-González
- Thousands Affected By Agent Orange in Dak Lak by VVAW
- Memories of Nicaragua, 1986 by Michael Gillen
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