soldiers used as guinea pigs

soldiers used as guinea pigs: March 2005 I woke as usual, sometime in the middle of the night, I think it was about 3am, so life is normal for me. Sleep is a fleeting thing in my life, if it's not the nightmares, it's the back pain, or the ringing in my ears, it's amazing how loud it gets when you want to sleep. Mount St Helen's is clammoring for attention again, spewing forth a large column of ash. I had the opportunity to be there in Washington for the first live show, I use to have a jar of the ash from Yakima, when you shook it, it floated around the jar for days. Ex number 2 kept it in the fallout of the divorce. It's amazing how many of my life's souvenoirs I have lost that way. I am curious to see what today brings in the way of the VA, after the call last night from the Senator's office, I just have the feeling today is the day I hear something. I just want to make sure Kevin and Dori are taken care of when I die. I spent my entire life working for the government, 10 years in the Army, 4 years in the National Guard, and almost 17 years at the Post Office before I walked away due to the stress.The Army was the one's who used me as a guinea pig for chemical weapons and drugs, they are the ones who lied about the long term effects. They said there wouldn't be any, that's why we didn't need to be followed by medical personnel after participating in the test program. Then they promised a congressional committee in 1993 to find the test vets and the VA failed to do that, their inaction has cost my family a lot of money, lost medical care for the past 5 years. How do they make that right? Even an apology now is to late, just send the dead presidents they owe will be a start.