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By Mar 28, 2021
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Open letter to the troops: Take the damn vaccine, please

Diseases are evil.
By Dec 15, 2020
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Trump weighs executive order for ill veterans who served at toxic ‘black goo’ base

The order would help those vets by adding Uzbekistan to the VA’s registry of locations with known burn pit exposure.
By Nov 12, 2020
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Lawmakers are investigating the cancer diagnoses of veterans of toxic Uzbekistan base

A House committee is investigating cancer diagnoses in more than 400 veterans who served in Uzbekistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
By Nov 3, 2020
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How Jon Stewart is leading the fight for veterans suffering from burn pit exposure

“Really, ‘thank you’ means getting off your ass and getting involved and helping them. We’re better than this.”
By Sep 23, 2020
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New legislation would expand VA healthcare for service members exposed to burn pits, toxic substances

On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs unanimously passed legislation to reform how the Department of Veterans Affairs provides care to service members who face toxic exposure.
By Aug 7, 2020
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How the VA is failing to track veterans burn pit claims

Just 10,588 burn-pit claims have been filed since Sept. 11, 2001, Veterans Affairs said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from a veterans advocacy group
By Jan 20, 2020
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Jon Stewart joins fight to help veterans exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits

''After all that you've given, the last thing you should be doing is fighting the very country that you gave so much to. It makes no sense.'
By Nov 1, 2019
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More veterans are getting cancer, and some suspect it’s due to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan

The rate of treatments for urinary cancers — which include bladder, kidney and ureter cancers — increased 61 percent from fiscal year 2000 to fiscal year 2018.
By Jan 14, 2019
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Supreme Court Rejects US Service Members’ Appeal Over Burn Pits Illnesses

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by U.S. troops sickened by smoke from open-air pits used to burn waste in Iraq and Afghanistan to revive a...
By Sep 3, 2018
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Petraeus To Congress: It’s Time To Get Serious About Burn Pits

Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus urged Congress in an interview with Fox News on Monday to make good on its … Continued