"When Dr. Kissenger came into the room, he didn't really help anybody, but the government really didn't produce anyone who knew how bad it was."
-David J Dean, former Chief Trial Counsel in the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation, in a personal interview, 2017
David Dean, 2017, in a personal interview
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"The problem with that defoliate was that it contained, we discovered sometime in the litigation, as we were going through documents…it contained dioxin... A component in Agent Orange was deadly and the chemical companies knew that their chemical contained dioxin. When we had veterans who complained of not only rashes and problems that weren’t terrible significant, but of cancers and liver damage and even damage to veteran’s children they conceived after Vietnam after they were sprayed with Agent Orange. That’s when the lawsuit was started." |
"The committee concluded that no health hazard is or was involved to man or domestic animals from the amounts or manner these materials were used in aforementioned exercise." ''The veterans have won the final battle of the Vietnam War." |
"As far as the treatment that veterans are receiving in regard to Agent Orange exposure, I believe the government is trying to be as lenient as possible. Any veteran that served anywhere in Viet Nam during the war is presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. That would be between January 9th, 1962 and May 7th, 1975..."
-Bill Krellner, Chapter Leader of the US TOO! Prostate Cancer Support Group, in a personal interview, 2018
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"The real intent (of the event) is to get the VA and the federal politicians to get off their butts and treat us better”
-Bill Davenport, president of the Wildwood chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, during the Wildwood Agent Orange protest, 2017
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