(c) intolerance symptoms (alcohol, nicotine, medicines);
(d) impression of premature aging.
(2) Further, one or more symptoms of the second group were found:
(a) depressive or subdepressive disorders of vital functions; I have
(b) cerebral vegetative (syncopal) attacks;
(c) slight or moderate amnestic and demential defects;
(d) slight organoneurological defects (predominantly microsymptoms and singular signs of extrapyramidal character).
Our results are a contribution to the general question of psychopathological delayed and permanent lesions caused by industrial poisoning. On the basis of our studies of the etiologically different manifestations of toxication, the possibility of a relatively uniform–though equally unspecific–cerebro-organic delayed effect syndrome is conceivable.
If I only had one or two of the known problems I might think it was just bad health, but I have too many of them for it to be just a coincidence.
Veteran’s widows also suffer. The military never notified many of the widows that their husbands were used in these experiments, nor that their deaths may be linked to these exposures. Nor did it advise them that they might be entitled to veteran’s benefits, health care and military privileges, use of the PX and Commissaries, etc.
The other veterans and I, along with the widows of deceased veterans, deserve better assistance from the government.
You can't use and abuse soldiers and decades later just ignore them and wait for them to die. It isn't right.
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