The President and his administration have done a lot to anger me, but as someone who lost her 58-year-old father to cancer he contracted as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, this is by far the biggest slap in the face.
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My dad was in Vietnam at the end of the war, after the US stopped using Agent Orange. He thought he wasn’t at risk for exposure.
Getting the government to recognize their complicity in my dad’s multiple myeloma diagnosis so he could receive VA care and benefits was extremely difficult. We were lucky the VA and veterans organizations like those in the story came through.
If the government told my dad (& millions of others) he might have been at risk, rather than conceding his disease was a result of his service after the fact, he might have caught his cancer much earlier.
He might have seen me graduate from college. Been at my wedding.
He might have seen me graduate from college. Been at my wedding.
I can now say with full confidence that I have no comprehension of how exactly Trump’s supporters can see behavior like this and think the President is truly a patriot or fit for the office of Commander-in-Chief.
