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Visit `Lesli Moore Dahlke YouTube Channel` for Inspired Insight into Agent Orange and Vietnam

New video channel offers very real, raw, vulnerable dialog of surviving cancer and Agent Orange.

(LOS ANGELES) - Lesli Moore Dahlke is part of the civilian population who lived and worked in Vietnam.

Lesli's new YouTube channel launched just two days ago --- and the Collateral Damage "short" from Lesli's Documentary is up, as of yesterday.

Traveling Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall Comes to Portland

Community Invited to Pay Respects to America’s War Veterans

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Dignity Memorial® Vietnam Wall, a three-quarter-scale traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be open for public viewing November 9 – 12 at Skyline Memorial Gardens.

Free and open to the public 24 hours a day from Friday, November 9 through Monday, November 12 the replica is eight feet high and 240 feet long. Its black, reflective surface is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 servicemen and women who died or are missing in Vietnam.

Camp Lejeune Marines Get the Shaft

The latest statistics from the VA’s Louisville office on Camp Lejeune’s disability compensation claims show an 84% denial rate for medical conditions claimed by veterans for Camp Lejeune’s contaminated water wells.

(LOUISVILLE, KY) - Outside of the military, no corporation could avoid the huge liability for deaths and injuries from poisoned water wells. Camp Lejeune Marines who were injured by the base’s contaminated water wells are getting the shaft.

Victims of Agent Orange - Dioxin Poisoning

There are Bills in legislation that can make our lives less frustrating. Those Bills are House Bill HR-3612 and Senate Bill S.1629. Please urge your members of Congress and Senate to pass them.

(MEDIA, PA) - Victims of Agent Orange (AO) who are infected, Vietnam veterans, children of Vietnam veterans; then there are spouses and mothers or fathers who are victims by association.

By banding together and pressing forward to be heard is the only way we victims can win.

VA Approves 212 Ship Incidents for Presumptive Exposure to Agent Orange Conditions Affecting Vietnam Veterans

An estimated 60-80,000 Vietnam Veterans may be involved in the 212 “Brown Water” Ship & Units Incidents.

(SAN DIEGO) - An estimated 60-80,000 Vietnam Veterans may be involved in the 212 “Brown Water” Ship & Units Incidents.

Medical Marijuana Prevents PTSD Suicides!

Portland VA confronts PTSD therapy failures?!?

(PORTLAND, OR) - PTSD therapy failures and suicides, even with VA treatment, are a national disgrace, reports The Oregonian.

Military veterans are the main focus whose suicides far outnumber those who are not military veterans.

Hearing Loss and Tinnitus: VA Practicing Below International Diagnostic Standards

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Emerson.

(MONTEREY, CA) - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is willfully denying disability benefits with regard to Hearing Loss and Tinnitus. Veterans deserve the same standard of care used in civilian health care.

To do otherwise is a violation of contractual Intent of health care promised for service. Before making any disability claim with the VA a veteran is best served obtaining a civilian diagnosis including the condition’s Federal Procedure Codes.

Applications Available for Largest Veterans Day Parade West of the Mississippi

Applications are available through the end of next month.

(ALBANY, OR) - Lightening, a fitting name for a carousel horse lovingly hand crafted by volunteers, many of whom are veterans, will be striding through the Albany Veterans Day parade, Saturday, November 10th.

The Albany Historic Carousel and Museum entry will be joined by upwards of 225 other entries making this once again, the largest Veterans Day Parade west of the Mississippi.

PTSD/TBI: A National, Medical, Moral, Financial Catastrophe

We are in worse trouble than anyone has imagined.

(SALEM) - The Oregonian carried an article about Army Combat Veteran, Theadore Jones, “Correcting for Veterans” on Tuesday, pointing out the disgraceful treatment of out battered and bruised medically disabled veterans.

He was hit with bombs and grenade 7 times in Iraq in 2004. He is 100% disabled with PTSD and other injuries.

Veterans: Doing The Job Of Our Legislators?

This is published as a press release; John encourages all interested media to republish this information, thank you.

(MEDIA, PA) - When it involves Vietnam veterans, some (not all) of our legislators turn a deaf ear.

Those who do understand our health problems do try to help. They are the minority. I speak for Navy Blue Water Sailors, as well as some Air Force and Fleet Marines.