to any Capitol Hill Staff that read this

Request for Help for Korean DMZ Veteran from Tennessee



To any of the State VA Representatives,



Any State VA representatives that are on our communication list that we share data with I need either the contact information or for you to contact a "State VA representative" for the State of Tennessee for me.



This is in regard to Veteran David Hill of Tennessee, now deceased (57), and his widow and seven year old son.



David served along the DMZ in Korea, which is not being challenged by VA. David had sufficient paper work including a letter from his commanding officer of this service.



VA denied David’s claim based on service on the DMZ commencing two months after the DoD arbitrarily indicated it quit using the toxic herbicides in that area. Of course, this totally discounts the half-life of these militarized toxic herbicides as defined by the “real toxicology experts” of our Environmental Protection Agency as documented and published at: http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/dwh/t-soc/dioxin.html



David succumbed to lung cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), both on the list of presumed Agent Orange disorders; as well as coronary artery disease (CAD) that should be on the list of presumed disorders concluded by many studies, including the government's own studies. The statistical odds of this sequence happening by chance alone are very improbable.



To add to the statistical improbability of this list of disorders happening by chance alone; David left the Korean DMZ and was discharged from service on his discharge physical with pustular acne. Veteran Hill did not have this immune system disorder (pustular acne) before arriving on the Korean DMZ. Pustular acne being one of the hallmark signs of dioxin or dioxin like isomer exposures.



I have brought this individual case up to House Veterans Affairs Committee and the lack of objectivity in this case; including that in Congress’s own bill for civilians that served along the Korean DMZ their inclusive dates are approximately two years longer than that of the Korean DMZ Veteran. Of course, for the civilian, this case could and would not be denied based on service of the established inclusive dates.



The House Veterans Affairs Committee did not seemed to be interested in the illogical decision of this case and lack of objective common sense decision making.



David asked for my help and I should have asked for your help then before he passed away, which might have given him some comfort knowing his case had been approved and his wife and son would have some help.



I do not ask often for individual help but this case seems so straight forward it is hard to comprehend anyone at Veterans Affairs denying this case for Veteran Hill.



Any support you can give in this case would be greatly appreciated.



I can send the claim number and forward it when I am contacted.



Of course, Veteran Hill’s widow will have to reapply at this time, which is the real tragedy of a case that should have been approved before his passing.



Thank you in advance for any help and assistance.



Charles Kelley

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This is one of those cases that beg for help and for the right thing to be done, I served on that same DMZ just a few months after this veteran at Camp Liberty Bell and walked the same fence lines on many night patrols and went tinto Panmunjom more than once armed with wooden handles for confrontations with the North Koreans, Agent Orange doesn't quit being toxic the last day it was sprayed, look at Vietnam and the still active toxic problems caused in young children today in towns near where the barrels of AO were stored. This stuff is still dangerous for years after last being used, it didn't stop being toxic in 1971 I can assure you.

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