Perhaps the most emotional issue for our membership is the clear suffering of what we believe is an extraordinary rate of birth anomalies and abnormally high rates of disease and adverse health care conditions in the children, and in the grandchildren, of Vietnam veterans.
Kirsten Gillibrand: “Perhaps the most emotional issue for our membership is the clear suffering of what we believe is an extraordinary rate…”
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Gillibrand highlights the health impacts on children of Vietnam veterans due to Agent Orange exposure.
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