2012年5月17日木曜日

Telling it like it is

"These documents are the smoking gun. Now there is no way that the Department of Defense can continue to deny defoliants were ever on Okinawa. It's time they owned up and started giving these sick veterans the justice they deserve."


This is from a report in The Japan Times online, detailing the paperwork related to Agent Orange in Okinawa. It's a scary story that won't go away. It can't be erased, and, like most military fiascoes, the effects are still being felt.

The very, very least that should be done is to give these affected veterans the medical care they earned by serving in he US military.

(full story to follow)