So it is when the law was passed. I claimed bladder cancer from 2010 and denied, when the law was passed in 2017 it was granted back to the day it was made a law. Now the crap part, I was 100 percent up until this month after a hearing where the VA reduced from 100 to 40%.
Something else to consider Okinawa (Futenma) stored AO during and after Vietnam, and there are 2 decisions one prostrate cancer and bladder cancer that won awards from the VA, yet when I tried to claim some maladies they rejected my claim twice.