<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks for this, Arnold.<br><br>Am sure that Connie will reply to all as well.<br><br>Hope you are well.<br><br>Stay safe.<br><br>Chuck<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);"><font style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">===============================</span><br>Chuck Palazzo<br>Agent Orange Action Group</span><br>http://aoag.org/<br><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;">Hoa Binh Chapter, Veterans For Peace</span><br>http://vfp-vn.ning.com/</font><font size="1"><font class="yui_3_2_0_2_133065404731860" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"
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<ngo-sanrm@ngocentre.org.vn> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Marie Helene Lavallard <mariehelene.lavallard@wanadoo.fr>; Len Aldis <lenaldis@yahoo.co.uk>; Chuck Searcy <chuckusvn@gmail.com>; Margrit Schlosser <margrit.schlosser@gmail.com>; Lady Borton <ladyborton@gmail.com>; Wayne Dwernychuk <wdwernychuk@telus.net>; DAVA Tien <ao.dava@yahoo.com>; Senior Colonel Dr. Tam <ngoctammoitruong@gmail.com>; "vava@vava.org.vn" <vava@vava.org.vn>; Hien Nguyen <hien_dava@yahoo.com>; Col. Minh Y <minhnguyenvava@yahoo.com>; Heather A. Bowser <chickebeadz@aol.com>; Kim Browne <knb@vietnamvolunteernetwork.com>; Ken Young <kentar@telus.net>; Kenneth J Herrmann Jr <kherrman@rochester.rr.com>; Toan Bui Van <toanbui@vnah-hev.org>; Tran Tuyet Hanh (SKMT) <tth2@hsph.edu.vn>; Eric Frater <fraterem@state.gov> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">There is a huge amount of research on Agent Orange and its dioxin contaminant.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">There is relatively little health or biology research on dioxins done in Vietnam to date. Some, but not anywhere near the amount done elsewhere where there
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">You might wish to read the book, Dioxins and Health, 3<sup>rd</sup> Ed, Ed. Arnold Schecter, Wiley,, 2012 to get an orientation to Vietnam, Agent Orange,
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Please let us know the answers to the questions Chuck Palazzo sent you. I too am curious to learn more about you.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Regards and best wishes,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Chuck Palazzo [mailto:chuck_pal@yahoo.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 01, 2013 9:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Constance McDonough-Thayer; AO Working Group; SANRM ngocenter<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Marie Helene Lavallard; Len Aldis; Chuck Searcy; Margrit Schlosser; Lady Borton; Arnold Schecter; Wayne Dwernychuk; DAVA Tien; Senior Colonel Dr. Tam; vava@vava.org.vn; Hien Nguyen; Col. Minh Y; Heather A. Bowser; Kim Browne; Ken Young; Kenneth J
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">This is great work, you have set out to do. Best of luck with your project and I will help you as best as I can. By the way, which University do you attend and what are your plans
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">I am copying the people in Vietnam as well as internationally who, in my opinion, are the most knowledgeable about Agent Orange and its affects on the human body, genetics as well
as the environment - and likely, biology of same.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">I encourage this project, Connie - Vietnamese as well as my fellow Americans continue to die each day as a result of Agent Orange - and we are now well in to the 4th generation
of this incredible nightmare.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Thanks and hope to see you soon.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black;">Hi Chuck!</span></i></b><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><i><span style="color:black;">I am working on my senior thesis for my undergrad (I am studying biology and applied math), and have decided to write about the biology of Agent
Orange and social injustice of herbicidal warfare. This is my third time in Da Nang and I've met some incredible people on my trips, but I am trying to find a biologist who has studied the effects of Agent Orange in Da Nang. I work at the Red Cross orphanage,
a social support center by the bus stop, and two of the centers for victims of Agent Orange and I have spent a bit of time at Peace Village in Tam Ky, but it has been difficult for me to get information from those placements. I have several questions about
how the government declares that someone's disability stems from dioxin as well as what the protocol is for care once one has been stamped a victim of Agent Orange. I am also curious as to how many of the children effected are ill from exposure in their own
lives (living in an area with a high concentration of dioxin in the soil) or whether their disability is genetic and comes from the base pair of their grandparents, etc. being mutated from high exposure. </span></i></b><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0749097889MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><i><span style="color:black;">I'm working on my Vietnamese, but is not good yet! I would love to sit down an talk to you for a bit whenever you have the time. </span></i></b><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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Chuck Palazzo<br>
Agent Orange Action Group</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#FF7F00;"><br>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://aoag.org/">http://aoag.org/</a><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#FF7F00;">Hoa Binh Chapter, Veterans For Peace</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#FF7F00;"><br>
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