AN OPEN LETTER TO All Desert Storm Veterans, Gulf War Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, Family Members, Veteran Supporters
by Denise Nichols
Read this VA Staff Manipulation of Institute of Medicine Report closely! It has been 18 years and Desert Storm veterans ill from their service in the gulf war 90-91 wonder why the VA has not been more proactive, well I believe these are very hard and documented facts!
Delay, Denial, Avoidance.
It will only stop when we all raise our voices!
This means take this document and write a brief letter to your Elected Representative, Senators, House VA Committee, Senate VA Committee and
ASK CLEARLY FOR A SENATE AND HOUSE VA COMMITTEES JOINT HEARING NOW!
Panel 1: Should be the RAC GWI Committee
Panel 2: Should be each and everyone of the Gulf War Veteran Organizations that have fought for you since day1
NGWRC--Jim Bunker
AGWVA- Gail Reed
DSJF-Paul Lyons
Veterans for Common Sense- Paul Sullivan
National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition- Denise Nichols
Veterans of Modern Warfare- Don Overton
Wisconsin Veterans State Deptartment of Veterans- Anthony Hardy
Panel 3 Individual Gulf War Veterans ie Desert Storm Veterans or their Family Member if Desert Storm Veteran is now dead. and
Panel 4
most important the Army Preventative Medical Team that was there in theater! To finally lay out what happenned in theater!
It has been 18 years and the VA is still not taking care of the Desert Storm Veterans!
They ship you off and give you psychological drugs to keep you quiet. Does that help your body's response to all the exposures in theater?
You need the best diagnostic testing, regular screening for cancers, neuromuscular diseases, cardiac screening, checked for Autoimmune Disorders, etc.
You need detoxification, supplementation programs that Integrative Medicine and ACAM Physicians and Environmental Medicine Doctors on Civilian side know about!
You need to be tested for all the viral reactivation and that needs to be treated!
AS an officer nurse I was there to care for each of you and we did the best we could but we were not told the truth either as your medical officers! I have been involved since 1992 digging for the truth, going door to door on the hill in DC giving briefings, getting cosponsors on legistation, and testifying. WE have been into every rat maze of denial in DC and we can not wait any longer! So please write your letters!
IT is time for Joint hearings on the Hill in DC for Desert Storm Veterans!
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Below is only a small reprint from the web site. All Gulf war veterans, VSOs, NSO’s and Advocates need to read it, and article below by Denise Nichols
http://www.veteranstoday.com/downloads/09binnsmemo.pdf
FROM: James Binns, Chairman, Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans
Illnesses
SUBJECT: VA staff manipulation of Institute of Medicine reports
DATE: February 9, 2009
In its 452-page report released in November the Congressionally-mandated Research Advisory
Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses concluded that scientific research consistently
indicates that Gulf War illness is real, the result of toxic exposures during the 1991 war, and
affects at least 175,000 veterans -- one in four of those who served. The report is available from
the Committee scientific staff office at the Boston University School of Public Health at
rac@bu.edu and online at www.va.gov/rac-gwvi.
The report observes that these health problems have been “denied and trivialized” for seventeen
years. This process has included VA staff manipulation of Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports
relied upon by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in determining ill veterans’ benefits. [Report,
pp. 53-55] Because of the stature of the IOM, these reports have also misled researchers,
lawmakers, physicians, and the public regarding the health problems of Gulf War veterans.
VA subsequently announced that it was referring the Research Advisory Committee report to the
IOM. This new IOM report was requested before the new Administration took office, and VA
staff gave the IOM committee its charge on January 28.
The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, is universally
respected as the high court of American medical science. Government compromise of its
processes is a breach of public trust that would have been unthinkable under traditional ethical
standards. It is of great importance that this matter be thoroughly investigated and reformed, on
both the government and Institute sides. The IOM Gulf War reports should then be re-done in
accordance with the law, as recommended by the Research Advisory Committee [Report, p. 57].
This memorandum will consider VA staff’s interaction with the Institute of Medicine in the
preparation of the Gulf War reports. It will demonstrate:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/article5994.html
AN OPEN LETTER TO All Desert Storm Veterans, Gulf War Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, Family Members, Veteran Supporters
by Denise Nichols
Read this VA Staff Manipulation of Institute of Medicine Report closely! It has been 18 years and Desert Storm veterans ill from their service in the gulf war 90-91 wonder why the VA has not been more proactive, well I believe these are very hard and documented facts!
Delay, Denial, Avoidance.
It will only stop when we all raise our voices!
This means take this document and write a brief letter to your Elected Representative, Senators, House VA Committee, Senate VA Committee and
ASK CLEARLY FOR A SENATE AND HOUSE VA COMMITTEES JOINT HEARING NOW!
Panel 1: Should be the RAC GWI Committee
Panel 2: Should be each and everyone of the Gulf War Veteran Organizations that have fought for you since day1
NGWRC--Jim Bunker
AGWVA- Gail Reed
DSJF-Paul Lyons
Veterans for Common Sense- Paul Sullivan
National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition- Denise Nichols
Veterans of Modern Warfare- Don Overton
Wisconsin Veterans State Deptartment of Veterans- Anthony Hardy
Panel 3 Individual Gulf War Veterans ie Desert Storm Veterans or their Family Member if Desert Storm Veteran is now dead. and
Panel 4
most important the Army Preventative Medical Team that was there in theater! To finally lay out what happenned in theater!
It has been 18 years and the VA is still not taking care of the Desert Storm Veterans!
They ship you off and give you psychological drugs to keep you quiet. Does that help your body's response to all the exposures in theater?
You need the best diagnostic testing, regular screening for cancers, neuromuscular diseases, cardiac screening, checked for Autoimmune Disorders, etc.
You need detoxification, supplementation programs that Integrative Medicine and ACAM Physicians and Environmental Medicine Doctors on Civilian side know about!
You need to be tested for all the viral reactivation and that needs to be treated!
AS an officer nurse I was there to care for each of you and we did the best we could but we were not told the truth either as your medical officers! I have been involved since 1992 digging for the truth, going door to door on the hill in DC giving briefings, getting cosponsors on legistation, and testifying. WE have been into every rat maze of denial in DC and we can not wait any longer! So please write your letters!
IT is time for Joint hearings on the Hill in DC for Desert Storm Veterans!
"Keep on, Keepin' on"
Dan Cedusky, Champaign IL "Colonel Dan"
See my web site at:
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/VeteranIssues/
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