The Ghosts of Desert Storm
The Plan:
Veterans all especially Gulf War Veterans Please post this on websites and forward to others that you know. We need a massive effort. The Agent Orange Vets and Atomic vets went thru this and unfortunately we are 17 almost 18 years in to this battle against our own government. I believe each veterans, their family members and spouses can have a huge impact if we all respond now. I am asking for three simple actions that each of you have the ability to do. If you think you cannt then think of General Mich, Major Donnelly and his family they were severly ill and in motorized chairs with respiratory support but they did not give up.
We may have gotten a bum deal so far but this is not about one of us individually but all of us and for the survivors that have already lost a loved one. This is about making a change now that will not be forgotten! You can do these three things from where you live for very little cost! But if we all do it in each state it must result in an impact!
For some reason each of us has some mission in our larger lives and maybe this is it.
For the current and future!
1. Tommorrow or tonight I am requesting each of the gulf war veterans and their families to write a letter to the editor of your local paper...you can find them all on line and can submit them on line. The American people need to hear from you the injuried what it has been like!!!! Tell them what your veterans day or Thanksgiving was really like dont hold back let the emotions and truth flow!
2. Then I also am requesting that if you live in your capitol of your state to hand deliver a copy of the downloaded RAC report to your governor.
Write a short letter and ask them to address the issue in an editorial, ask them to direct their legislatures to have one hearing with their Senate and House VA committee at State level.....ask for a resolution from your state house and signed by governor that 17 years is long enough that the gulf war veterans should get compensated and rapidly. Ask them to support the call for medical research funding thru the DOD CDMRP program as is explained in the report.
3. Then ask them the Governor to have a meeting with the gulf war veterans and the chancellor of your medical school in your state....Share the RAC report with them....Ask for a meeting with the heads of their departments....neurology, hematology, cardiology, immunology, bio chemistry, pharmacology.....Present the findings to them and describe to them the symptoms and problems you have had. WE need to actively find the best of the best to submit research grants in the next cycle....we just had one....but that is okay you want them discussing between departments and getting informed and forming a interdisciplinary team to work together on their submissions. Remember biomarkers, diagnosis, treatment trials(small at first to prove the point and effectiveness)....
YOU CAN MAKE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT AS ILL GULF WAR VETERANS THAT Dont just want compensation but CARE and treatment and a way to get better and have a quality of life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is how you can really have a mission!
This battle is not done and each of you can play a significant important role to help not only yourselves but other gulf war veterans.
Enjoy the article below and please get energized because to carry this thru and get the job done is going to take all of us working and doing a little each day....
YOU CAN AND MUST DO THIS...a
handful and a committeee RAC/Adv comm on GWV can not accomplish this without you
Sincerely,
Denise
DSNurse1.
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