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Thanks for the update MArv.  I lost my big brother when he was way too young.

Sounds like you're hanging in there, and that's all we can do. 

Mark O

The news on my brother-in-law is bad. Cancer is terminal. Its in his lung, spot on liver, & one kidney.
Can't do much with the lung, surgery might remover the spot on the liver, and they likely will take that kidney out.
Doctors say its one to two years at best and with treatment maybe extend to three years. Quality of life likely pretty bad.
He was a U.S. Marine exposed to agent orange & he is only 52 years old. Same thing with my cousin a Marine exposed to agent orange and died in his early 50's.
This is hitting Belinda pretty bad so prayers for all are requested.
Thanks.

No matter how bad we think we have it, others have it worse.

Mark, the DOD was burying that stuff all over the world well into the 80s..... They have proven that it was used at OSAN to clear a perimeter defense zone around the base. And I have seen the DOD and DAF memos and papers on this. This stuff has been discovered up around the Korean DMZ. Who is to say it wasn't used in country here??
www.jonmitchellinjapan.com/agent-orange-on-okinawa.html

He guarded the VC POW's in Guam and in Okawania. Those two places are on the list of sites.
heck, I was at Chanute AFB, IL in the fall of 1971. Chanute is also on the list with dates 1970-1985.
crap was used all over.

Gary, prayers going out for your brother in law. It's got to be hard on both you and Belinda. 

We all know that Agent Orange has been proven to cause numerous bad illnesses including cancer and heart disease among many others.

According to all the research I have seen regarding Agent Orange and Viet Nam show that the last time it was used there was 1971. Korea was earlier and about 1968-1970. Several individuals claim that Agent Orange was used at Chanute, but No factual analysis has detected it.

"On October 16, 2013, Ms. May alleged that Agent Orange, Agent Blue and Agent White were used at Chanute Air Force Base. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a database of locations where Agent Orange and other tactical herbicides, including Agents Blue and White, was were used or stored within the United States. No Illinois sites appear in this database."

“There is no historical information, data or analytical results that show Agent Orange was ever used at Chanute Air Force Base,” Sparrow said.

Michael Glasser, a Florida resident who was stationed at Chanute in the 1960s, claims he was disabled due to having handled Agent Orange and had indicated to several local residents that he had handled Agent Orange on base.

In documents released by Glasser, quoted in an August Rantoul Press article, the Department of Veterans Affairs Board of Veterans Appeals states, however, that Glasser “has cancer of the bladder, prostate and urethra as a result of exposure to hazardous chemicals during service” as an apprentice engineer entomology specialist in the Civil Engineering Insect and Rodent Control Division from November 1963 until his discharge in May 1964.”

There was no mention of Agent Orange in the documents.

Sparrow said the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency contacted Glasser, who told the agency he had used 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T.

“He didn’t say he’d used Agent Orange,” Sparrow said. “If you take those two chemicals and used them here, that doesn’t make Agent Orange. He said he mixed them and that was the same as Agent Orange.”

At the November meeting of the RAB board, Chris Hill of IEPA said he contacted Glasser and asked if he handled Agent Orange “and he would only say that he handled and disposed of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T and asserted it was the same as Agent Orange.”

“I asked again if he handled a product that was specifically identified as Agent Orange, and he said he didn’t have specific information identifying the use of Agent Orange on the base,” Hill said.