John Mac,
Charles was "in country" when the heaviest dumping of herbicide was done and
he was at Phu Loi, South Vietnam in the III Corps area. Phu Loi was a
defoliant storage area for Agent Orange. The surrounding area was deforested
completely. Charles died of colon cancer.
See:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_1_3x_Agent_Orange_and_Cance...
And ...
http://www.landscaper.net/agent2.htm
You are right. Tens of thousands of depleted uranium (very dense)
projectiles fired from the 30mm gatling guns liter the ground in Kuwait,
Iraq and even Afghanistan. What effect this will have on those that collect
and live with them is unknown.
It might be interesting to note that France still has small areas that are
contaminated from World War I (1914-1918) gas attacks. (Mustard, Sarin and
other chemicals). Thousands of barrels of chemical weapons from the Axis
and Allied side were dumped into the North Sea after World War I & World War
II (1939-1945). Those 50 gallon steel barrels have corroded and have had an
impact of the fishing industry. Some have been snagged in fishing nets and
have washed ashore during storms.
Often we are our worst enemy ...
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project
http://members.cox.net/johnrcarpenter/index.htm
Donations to the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project can be made at:
http://www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html
Carpenter CD Project Update
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/r/John-R-Carpenter/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Mac Carpenter" <jcarpenter38(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Request for help for the son
ofourformerListAdministrator - Now $116 needed
I wonder if Charles Carpenter's cancer was related to Agent
orange? For a
long time the VA insisted there was no connection between Agent Orange and
birth defects and cancer but they now do treatments. However it doesn't
necessarily save lives. Now we are using ammunition in Iraq made from
so-called depleted uranium which is going to cause a huge amount of cancer
in the future in Iraq and in American veterans. I wish the feds would
honor
our fighting men as much as they tell us too.
It will be nice to have Chuck's line in the DNA base, since it hasn't been
added. We really have added a lot of knowledge to the family line thru
DNA.