Vietnam Vet shafted after cancer remission

Ok, so the government takes years to approve conditions connected to service. Do they turn around after that and award the veterans for all the years of suffering back to their service days? No. They will go back to only when the claim was filed. Now it looks like when it comes to all the years Agent Orange has been eating away at a Vietnam Veteran were not worth taking care of him now that cancer linked to Agent Orange is in remission.

Vietnam Vet With Cancer Might Lose Home Due To Reduced Benefits
CBS News
January 9, 2013

CHICAGO (CBS) – A Marine Corps veteran is in danger of losing his home, because of a serious illness connected to his service in Vietnam more than 40 years ago.

CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports the U.S. Veterans Administration had been helping the Chicago man, but much of that support has stopped, and now he’s in the fight of his life.

Sonny Cooper was once a robust U.S. Marine.

He volunteered for the Marine Corps, and saw combat in Vietnam. In 1967, he was exposed to Agent Orange, a deadly herbicide used by the U.S. to fight the war by destroying swaths of jungle and rural land to deprive enemy soldiers of cover and food.

“We would see them spraying. As a matter of fact, we’d be right under them sometimes,” Cooper said.
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