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The Agent Orange Review
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Agent Orange/Dioxin
Committee Report
By Buzz Sawyer

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

I was recently appointed chair of VVA's National Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee. George Claxton and Jack McManus have resigned due to health problems. We thank George and Jack for their excellent efforts.

I am currently serving on the Oklahoma Agent Orange/Dioxin Team of Chapter 751 in Lawton, Okla. and am the Oklahoma state committee chair. I was asked to accept the chairmanship of VVA's Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee and to re-establish links between the committee, the states, the chapters, and members. We are making contact with each state's Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee chair. This contact is necessary in order for the Agent Orange/Dioxin Team to come together to distribute information to each state council, chapter, at-large member, and any other Vietnam veteran and family member who needs our information.

Among many other things, our attention is drawn to VVA's 2006 Legislative Agenda and Policy Initiatives. There are three primary areas of concern: 1) funding, 2) accountability, 3) outreach. They are critical for the effective and efficient delivery of health care services and service-connected disability benefits earned by veterans.

If you have thoughts about our VVA Action Agenda for the upcoming year, please email me at bsawyer@vva.org  Remember, October is Agent Orange Awareness Month.

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Agent Orange Initiative Form

Why fill out the form? VVA's Veterans Agent Orange Initiative is a humanitarian, veteran-to-veteran effort to document Agent Orange exposure (particularly from hand and truck spraying of bases) and to define likely hot spots of dangerously high dioxin levels on former U.S. and ARVN bases in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

FROM THE VVA
CONSTITUTION

"The Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee shall accumulate and disseminate information regarding Agent Orange and Dioxin and actively pursue the recognition of presumptive disabilities from exposure to Agent Orange and Dioxin by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee shall provide assistance to State Councils, Chapters, and service programs in the handling of Agent Orange related problems. The Committee shall encourage and foster the sponsorship of legislation to help the victims of Agent Orange and Dioxin, and encourage scientific and medical research in the field of dioxin-related ailments."

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