US Vietnam Index

Veteran Affairs Department To Review Gulf War Claims VA Secretary says the decision is part of a “fresh, bold look” the department is taking to help veterans who have what’s commonly called “Gulf War Illness”. 05 April 2010

Science Triumphs For Gulf War Veterans In Their Battle With The VA Scientific Breakthrough for Gulf War 1 Veterans fighting to receive government compensation 10 March 2010

Report to Congress: Gulf War syndrome is real A scientific panel chartered by Congress cites nerve gas drug and pesticides used during the conflict as being associated with veterans' neurological problems.
November 18, 2008

Gulf War Syndrome – Refusing To Be Disabled
There is no such a thing as an unwounded soldier. While the US claimed 760 casualties in the 1991 Gulf War, by 2002 another 8,300 had died and 168,000 had been disabled by the effects of experimental vaccines, depleted uranium (DU), oil well fires, etc., and thousands of their children were born with disabilities. UK veterans suffered similarly... January 2006

A Veteran from Gulf War 1 Lashes Out
War kills souls. Mine included 6 December 2003

UK banks named in Gulf War Syndrome court case
Lloyds TSB, Barclays and Natwest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, are accused of helping Saddam to secure finance to buy ingredients and equipment used in the production of chemical weapons in the late 1980s 23 August 2003

Study Links '91 Gulf War Vets and Birth Defects
Children of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War are more likely to have three specific birth defects than those of soldiers who never served in the gulf 4 June 2003

A Mixed Reception for Black Soldiers
Here I was fresh back from Vietnam and I was still treated no better because I was a Black GI.
23 May 2003

The war against ourselves: An interview with major Doug Rokke
Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, travelling the country to speak out. Spring 2003

1st Gulf War, I was there
And then these people are so desperate to surrender that they walk across mine fields to come to you and some of them are blown to bits by their own mines, by their own people so that they can not fight anymore. It is absolutely heart wrenching. Some of our commanders, even when people wanted to surrender, so that we wouldn't be slowed up, they would go ahead and drop artillery rounds on them. December 1998