U.S. vet pries lid off Agent Orange denials

[xchrom]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120415a1.html


Larry Carlson


JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Thousands of barrels of Agent Orange were unloaded on Okinawa Island and stored at the port of Naha, and at the U.S. military's Kadena and Camp Schwab bases between 1965 and 1966, an American veteran who served in Okinawa claims.


In an interview in early April with The Japan Times and Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting Co., a TV network based in Okinawa, former infantryman Larry Carlson, 67, also said that Okinawan stevedores were exposed to the highly toxic herbicide as they labored in the holds of ships, and that he even saw it being sprayed at Kadena Air Base.

Carlson is one of only three American servicemen who have won benefits from the U.S. government over exposure to the toxic defoliant on Okinawa — and the first of them to step forward and reveal that massive amounts of it were kept on the island.

If true, his claims, which are corroborated by five fellow soldiers and a 1966 U.S. government document, would debunk the Pentagon's consistent denials that Agent Orange was ever stored on Okinawa.

[southernyankeebelle]

1. The government took years to acknowledge that Agent Orange did damage to our troops. They

didn't want to pay the health care costs. What a government.

[IcyPeas]

2. Monsanto

Reports indicate that Monsanto has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by US residents who say they were poisoned by chemicals used in the manufacturing of the Agent Orange in their town of Nitro, West Virginia.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/24-2

[jwirr]

3. And that leaves out the farmers who used it but could not prove they were victims. My dad knew

what our soldiers were talking about.