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March 16, 2007LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Veteran To Talk About Depleted Uranium
By John Larson
for Mountain Mail
SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) -- A U.S. Army veteran of the war in Iraq will be speaking Friday night at the Socorro Public Library.
Staff Sergeant Herbert Reed of the New York National Guard said he was exposed to Depleted Uranium while serving in Iraq in 2003, and that he has had numerous health problems because of the exposure which the Army and Veteran’s Administration refuse to treat.
Reed believes he breathed in DU contaminated dust while patrolling a bombed out train depot in Samawah.
“Personnel from the Dutch army yelled at us to get out of the area, that is was contaminated and not safe,” Reed told the Mountain Mail. “Not too much later I was experiencing pain and other symptoms.”
Reed said his gums bleed and a tumor has been removed from his thyroid.
“I have rashes erupting everywhere and the itching is constant,” he said. “I have migraines everyday, and my joints ache constantly.”
Reed said he told doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital that there was something terribly wrong in his body, but they refused to test him for depleted uranium poisoning while he recovering from wounds.
“They told me there was no test for it.” he said. “But myself and seven other guys with me in the 442nd Military Police Company, the ones in Samawah, ended up going to Germany where doctors there tested us all positive for DU poisoning.”
He said everyday he takes several medications for his symptoms, inclding morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener, Viagra for sexual dysfunction, and Valium for his nerves.
“I have to take the morphine every four hours for pain,” he said.
Reed, a 20-year veteran of the New York police department, said the U.S. military and the V.A. still refuse to investigate the possibility of depleted uranium poisoning of American troops.
He is currently touring New Mexico as a Depleted Uranium Vet test bill is being debated in the Senate.
Reed will be speaking at the Socorro Public Library at 7 p.m. Friday, March 16.
© 2007 Mountain Mail Socorro, New Mexico. All Rights Reserved. This content, including derivations, may not be stored or distributed in any manner, disseminated, published, broadcast, rewritten or reproduced without express, written consent from STPNS.
http://www.stpns.net/view_article.html?a...1025453705
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Mountain Mail / STPNS
March 16, 2007LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Veteran To Talk About Depleted Uranium
By John Larson
for Mountain Mail
SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) -- A U.S. Army veteran of the war in Iraq will be speaking Friday night at the Socorro Public Library.
Staff Sergeant Herbert Reed of the New York National Guard said he was exposed to Depleted Uranium while serving in Iraq in 2003, and that he has had numerous health problems because of the exposure which the Army and Veteran’s Administration refuse to treat.
Reed believes he breathed in DU contaminated dust while patrolling a bombed out train depot in Samawah.
“Personnel from the Dutch army yelled at us to get out of the area, that is was contaminated and not safe,” Reed told the Mountain Mail. “Not too much later I was experiencing pain and other symptoms.”
Reed said his gums bleed and a tumor has been removed from his thyroid.
“I have rashes erupting everywhere and the itching is constant,” he said. “I have migraines everyday, and my joints ache constantly.”
Reed said he told doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital that there was something terribly wrong in his body, but they refused to test him for depleted uranium poisoning while he recovering from wounds.
“They told me there was no test for it.” he said. “But myself and seven other guys with me in the 442nd Military Police Company, the ones in Samawah, ended up going to Germany where doctors there tested us all positive for DU poisoning.”
He said everyday he takes several medications for his symptoms, inclding morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener, Viagra for sexual dysfunction, and Valium for his nerves.
“I have to take the morphine every four hours for pain,” he said.
Reed, a 20-year veteran of the New York police department, said the U.S. military and the V.A. still refuse to investigate the possibility of depleted uranium poisoning of American troops.
He is currently touring New Mexico as a Depleted Uranium Vet test bill is being debated in the Senate.
Reed will be speaking at the Socorro Public Library at 7 p.m. Friday, March 16.
© 2007 Mountain Mail Socorro, New Mexico. All Rights Reserved. This content, including derivations, may not be stored or distributed in any manner, disseminated, published, broadcast, rewritten or reproduced without express, written consent from STPNS.