A recent report (http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,163739,00.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS) about a link between chemicals that troops in the first Gulf War were exposed to and Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is starting to shed some light on the ever elusive syndrome that has systematically sickened and even killed many veterans from the Gulf War. This is really peaking my interest and I hope they are able to make an inconclusive and agreed upon cause of Gulf War Syndrome.
When I was in the Gulf War, my unit was in the fallout from a huge Iraqi ammo dump called Khamisiyah that was blown up. DOD, and other agencies have ran multiple computer modeling programs that replicate the blast, atmospheric conditions, and other factors to know exactly where the debris came down. In that ammo dump was rockets and artillery filled with the Nerve Agent, Sarin. You can read about Khamisiyah here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamisiyah.
I was also ordered, as was everyone else, to take the PB tablets mentioned in the article on military.com. Add to that the fact that everyone I knew over in the Gulf War at the time was also forced to get an unregulated and FDA un-approved Anthrax shot. A shot that was never recorded in my shot or medical records.
What peaked my interest in this story was that some of the symptoms they say may be directly related are some of the ones I thought came from an accident I was in while on Active Duty that resulted in me being diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). After reading this article, I mentioned it to my wife and said that maybe some of the things I have dealt with over the years were a result of GWS and not the TBI. I guess I will never know, and I am not sure it is possible to ever find our or that it really matters. The bottom line is that I want our Government to whole-heartedly find the real cause or at least agree to what they think could be the cause.
Very interesting article. We recently filmed a documentary and authored an original investigate report which examines this 19 year secret US government program whose consequence resulted in the needless suffering and deaths of our brave gulf war veterans.
Our Gulf War vets Need our help. The first step is to make all those who care aware of their crucial plight. Your help in this effort will be appreciated by nearly 900,000 homeless vets plus the soon-to-return Mid-East vets.
Have a look — http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/more-political-articles/2010/7/19/us-government-to-americas-vets-drop-dead.html
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