Dear Colleague:
Please join me as a co-sponsor of the Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2011, H.R. 2634. This legislation would provide medical assistance for the children and grandchildren of American veterans who served in Vietnam, extend the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, and provide health care and social services for exposed Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, as well as remediation of those areas in south and central Vietnam that remain contaminated by dioxin.
This legislation addresses the ongoing health problems of United States veterans, their progeny, and the Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans harmed by the use of Agent Orange/dioxin. H.R. 2634 offers an opportunity to heal the terrible suffering and wounds from the Vietnam conflict, 50 years after the beginning of the spraying of Agent Orange/dioxin in central and south Vietnam.
Please join me as a co-sponsor of this legislation to put the Vietnam conflict finally in the past and make a meaningful and positive step forward.
To be added as a co-sponsor of this bill, please e-mail Jian Zapata.
Sincerely,
BOB FILNER
Ranking Democratic Member
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs