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American Gulf War Veterans Association

Joyce Riley vonKleist, RN,BSN spokesperson

P.O. Box 85, Versailles, Missouri 65084

(573) 378-6049  (573) 378-5998 fax

www.gulfwarvets.com,  gulfwar@dam.net

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUGUST 8, 2003

NEW REVELATION SURFACES ABOUT GULF WAR II MYSTERY ILLNESS

The American Gulf War Veterans Association (AGWVA), an independent
Gulf War Veterans support organization, has long searched for answers
to explain why nearly half of the 697,000 Gulf War I Veterans are
now ill and why over 200,000 of those servicemen/women have requested
disability, but have received no adequate diagnosis or treatment,

>from either the Department of Defense (DOD), or Veterans Affairs.

Though there have been over 125 studies done by the government at
the cost of over $300,000,000 to the taxpayer, we still have no
answers as to what caused so many of our soldiers to become ill.
Meanwhile, the suffering veterans are receiving little, if any,
medical treatment for this illness.  It seems that whenever veterans
become ill, the term mystery illness seems to be the first and often
the only diagnosis that is ever made.  Veterans are then left to
fend for themselves, sick and unable to work, with little hope of
a normal life again.

The AGWVA is now again asking questions, this time, about the newest
mystery illness to hit the military.  After being pressured by a
few independent news reporters who have not permitted this mystery
to continue unabated, The DOD recently has been forced to announce
the mystery deaths of Gulf War II soldiers and that at least 100
other men and women have become ill.  Again, however, there were
no adequate answers, but, only that the mystery illness diagnosis
had reared its ugly head again.  According to a family member of
one of the military victims, the DOD recently, has changed its label
of the illness and is now calling it pneumonia in sharp contrast
to what a physician on the scene reported.  Due to continuing
pressure for sound answers, the DOD was again forced to send an
investigative team to Iraq, however the convenient, repeated lack
of diagnosis, unfortunately translates into lack of treatment, and
lack of compensation for the veteran.  The jury is still out,
however, if the DOD will be forthcoming with the truth this time.

Contrary to the pneumonia and mystery illness labels, enlightening
information surfaced today on THE POWER HOUR radio show
(www.thepowerhour.com) in an interview with Mark Neusche, father
of Josh Neusche, one of the GW II troops to lose his life from the
mystery illness while serving in Iraq.  The father stated that his
20-year-old healthy son, a former track star and non-smoker, had
written home on June 26th explaining that he would be going on a
30-hour hauling mission, but that he could not disclose what they
would be hauling. The son had stated that he had been to the Palace
of Sadaam Hussein, and it was later learned that he was hauling at
the Baghdad Airport.

Marsha Paxson also appeared on the show, as she is the journalist
who broke the U.S. story for the Lake Sun Leader (www.lakesunleader.com).
Although the facts behind this story are continually changing, Ms.
Paxson is one of the few journalists who is remaining true to the
facts of the original story. Ms. Paxson revealed in her articles
that the father reported that his son was not the only ill soldier.
Neusche stated that while his son was in a coma at Landstuhl Hospital,
the father overheard the nurses say that they were expecting numerous
sick troops to be brought in all at one time.  In fact, the father
actually witnessed approximately 55 other troops being received by
the hospital after they were transported by a military ambulance
(bus).  According to the father, the transported troops were
exhibiting varying degrees of the illness. Some walked, some were
in wheelchairs and others were on respirators.  In the commotion,
a doctor reported to the father that his son was suffering from a
toxin.  No mention of pneumonia was made, nor was it ever reported
in the medical record.

Paxton and the AGWVA now question the diagnosis, the actual number
of troops that were reported ill, and the date when the DOD first
became aware of this incident.

One of the most surprising statements to come from The Power Hour
interview conducted on The Genesis Network was that while the son,
Josh Neusche, was a healthy young soldier on June 26, 2003, when
he reported that he was going to serve on the secret hauling mission,
by July 1, 2003, he was in a coma, and that day was suddenly
classified by the military, as medically retired from the Army
without Josh or his familys consent.   Josh did not die until July
12, 2003.  Among other problems that this new classification created
was that the DOD was no longer obligated to assist the family in
getting to Germany to be with their son as he lay in a coma. Because
the DOD would not provide even so much as plane or taxi fare for
the Neusche family, all 650 members of the 203rd Engineer Battalion
each contributed $10.00 to make the familys final visit possible.

The AGWVA is demanding answers in a timely fashion and according
to spokesperson Joyce Riley, We cannot tolerate another whitewashing
of a tragedy against our veterans. It has happened too many times
before with our failure to safeguard our troops, adequately diagnose
and effectively treat the victims of Agent Orange spraying, Project
Shad shipboard-experimentation, and Gulf War Illness I.

This time someone has to be held accountable.  Ms.

Riley closed by saying, Speaking out for our past and present sick
veterans is the best way for Americans to support our troops!

The interview with Mark Neusche and Marsha Paxson can be heard at:
www.thepowerhour.com  click on the GWII mystery illness interview.

For more information on Gulf War illnesses, go to www.gulfwarvets.com

For more information on Project Shad, go to www.projectshad.org

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