[SPAM]Re: [ RadSafe ] On-Line Posting to Senator Rosa Franklin, WashingtonState Se...

[Eric D]

<The original issue was a difference of opinion on whether or not 
returning veterans in Washington State should receive medical treatment 
and monitoring due to potential or actual exposure to depleted uranium.  
In order to treat them as you state they must be looked for, first.  I 
am not a medical person but would expect the treatment to be consistent 
with the diagnosis.>

I believe that most of the people pushing this are trying to do what they
believe is best.  They hear a clamoring from the anti-DU activists and they
hear the other side and the middle-ground, the safe-ground seems to be what
is proposed, but it is not.  

The one issue that needs to be considered is the very real harm caused by
this unjustified and non-scientific focus on DU.  This type of monitoring
should not be done because of the very real harm this kind of unwarranted
monitoring causes.  

First and foremost is the impact on the soldier and family.  I have heard
first-hand how the false claims that form the rationale for this monitoring
impact these good people in real, measurable and treatable ways.  Second,
this constant drumbeat is diverting state and federal funds, resources and
legislative energy from those projects that would actually improve the
health and well-being of our soldiers and their families.

These are very real and to my mind unacceptable costs.

Eric Daxon, PhD, CHP
Colonel, USA(Ret)