C-123 Veterans DUMPED by DAV, PVA Veterans Organizations!

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VFW - thanks for your Nov 6 offer to help!!

We started asking for help last April, when the founders of our Association began uncovering Air Force documents establishing the dioxin contamination of the C-123 fleet. We wrote executives of the American Legion and Vietnam Veterans of America (correction - offer of help received 6 Nov), and received their powerful and encouraging support in our effort to get VA recognition of exposure.

PVA - REFUSED TO HELP!

But we were totally ignored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Disabled American Veterans. Despite helping us, and our individual members, being part of their Congressional charter and for which they work hard raising funds from the public, these three well-known veterans' organizations ignored every phone call, every visit by us to them, every request for a meeting, every email, every letter to their headquarters staff!

I belong to each of these veterans' organizations, paying dues or having already paid for lifetime memberships as with the VFW, DAV and PVA. Why are they content to focus on fund raising but not able to take a moment to write to the VA with a statement of support?

And why is Oregon Director of Veterans Affairs, Mr, Jim Willis, content to write us a letter denying any support because he "isn't persuaded" of our cause? Mr. Willis, we presented to you scientists' expert opinions, even from Oregon's own Oregon Health Sciences University and the CDC/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry...but you weren't persuaded?

Oregon DVA - REFUSED TO HELP!

I have life-threatening diseases which numerous scientists and my cardiologist conclude are due from Agent Orange exposure. But Mr. Willis isn't persuaded to help? What is your personal threshold for doing something other than your administrative functions in Salem...do you require ten PhD statements rather than the eight already put forward? What scientific evidence do you need to persuade you when I have already won the help from Portland;s Veterans Affairs Regional Office which recommended my claim be approved? You weren't persuaded?

Mr. Jim Willis - REFUSED TO HELP!

Mr. Willis, your failure to lend a hand is a vote against me and represents your official conclusion that my claim has no merit...even though your own Oregon DAV is representing me so effectively before the VA in Portland! Your abandonment of me must be because like Mr. Thomas Murphy of the VA's Compensation Service you agree that "TCDD has not been shown conclusively to cause harm" even though science considers TCDD the most potent toxin on earth.

I guess this administrator's opinions trump forty years of science!