[CPEO-MEF] Depleted Uranium & Vets

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Depleted Uranium

By Kevin Zeese
American Chronicle
July 11, 2005

States Take Action to Protect their Soldiers and Veterans: An Interview 
with Bob Smith of Louisiana

Louisiana recently passed legislation to all returning veterans to have 
the right to get a best practices health screening test for exposure to 
depleted uranium. Interviewed here is Bob Smith, one of the activists 
that helped make this bill possible. He is with the Louisiana Activist 
Network at: http://www.newdemocracyrising.com/index.asp. He is also I am 
a member of Veterans for Peace and the Viet Nam Veterans Against the 
War. Born a Texan and raised in a Navy family with three siblings, moved 
to Louisiana in 1977 a few years after returning from Viet Nam. He 
worked with adolescents in a psychiatric hospital where he met his wife, 
a co-worker, returning to the military and retired eight years ago as a 
Command Sergeant Major. He became actively involved the day Congress 
gave the President unconstitutional, power to make war on Iraq and has 
been active ever since in the peace movement and with the Presbyterian 
Church.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=1081

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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