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june152008- blue water navy vietnam veterans association（june152008——蓝水海军越南退伍军人协会）（10页）

June 15 2008 Where does the Republic of Vietnam end? Overview Just where did “The Republic of Vietnam” end? The question has taken on the utmost importance since the Department of Veterans Affairs in the USA began playing geographic games by exploiting imagined semantic loopholes in legislation Congress enacted to compensate military personnel due to Agent Orange exposure. DVA began denying claims in 2002, opining that legislation does not provide a presumption of herbicide exposure to a Vietnam Era veteran who never set foot on land in the Republic of Vietnam and did not serve on its inland waterways. The current wording of Sec. 3.307(a)(6)(iii) is as follows: “Service in the Republic of Vietnam includes service in the waters offshore and service in other locations if the conditions of service involved duty or visitation in the Republic of Vietnam.” Even though all coastal nations have claimed a belt of the surrounding sea as territory from historical times, a fact well known to Congress, DVA asserts: We have found no indication that Congress intended a presumption covering offshore service. This is an eristic argument promulgated for monetary gain at the expense of untold human misery and should be overturned not only because it is morally repugnant but also to protect the reputation of the United States internationally. Adding to the urgency of resolving this issue is the fact that U.S. Navy personnel were poisoned with high levels of dioxin from the herbicide spraying operation concurrent with their service. Many Navy vessels drew their water from the sea around them using distillers, an action that concentrated intentionally deposited contaminants in the runoff reaching them from the land. In order to disqualify thousands of Vietnam veterans, VA would have us believe Agent Orange magically halted at the edge of that land. The truth of the matter is that massive defoliation progressively increased contaminant’s access to the surrounding territorial waters by