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> Hi Tom, > I'm hoping you remember me. You were at Tuy Hoa >for a few months after I got there. I was hoping to >hear from you from an earlier e-mail that I sent. I >really need your help on a couple of things. First , >is there any way that I can get a copy(s) of my old >dogs medical records, Duke330xa. I took him to Tuy >Hoa,Vietnam in Dec.1966 and handled him until July >1968. I remember you introducing me to Dr. Howard >Hayes at the 1994 VDHA reunion in Washington,D.C.. >After looking up my dogs name and serial #, he looked >at me and asked me when the last time I had a major >physical? I told that I the last one I had was when I >seperated from the Air Force. He explained to me that >when Duke died there was an autopsy done on Duke and >he was found to be loaded with Agent Orange. He >expressed a real concern about this and said that I >should contact our family doctor about this.When I got >home I mentioned this to the doctor and she said she >was not familiar with Agent Orange. I remember a few >years after I got out of the Air Force I had a sperm >count test done and they told me then that I was 100% >sterile and that my wife and I could not have >children, so we adopted a baby girl. I'm now wondering >if Agent Orange was a major contributor to this! > I'm trying very hard now to get into the V.A. >and get checked out but it's not been very easy. The >VET representative keeps insisting that I need to file >PTSD claim instead. What I really need is >authentication or proof that I may in fact have been >exposed to Agent Orange because I went where ever that >dog went. About 3 or 4 times Duke and I went off base >on patrols with the South Koreans and the ARVONs. Is >there any way you can help me out? I've got a lot of >health issues and I really frustrated. > Thanks for your time, > Michael L. Warner

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