I was finally granted my 100% Service Connected Disability Compensation Pension from the U.S. Veterans Administration due to my permanet and total disabilities from my exposure to Agent Orange while serving my year in Vietnam. They had finally agreed that all my disabilities were caused by my exposure to this deadly chemical. I will now receive a 100% Service Connected Disabilities Pension for the rest of my life and as great as this news is, it still won't stop the pain and suffering I've endured for decades now. But since I will not be able to work any longer, that will at least provide my wife and I with a decent income so we can live out our lives and have a better quality of life than we'd have had otherwise with out this pension. And for that I do thank my country and the U.S. Veterans Administration for giving us that peace of mind for our future lives.

The author at 20 years old in Vietnam. The author was in the U.S. Air Force from Feb. 1968 - Feb. 1972, he served one year of duty in Vietnam from Nov. 1968 - Nov. 1969. He helped maintained Air Force crash-fire and crash-rescue trucks he also helped the South Vietnamese airman with maintaining their American supplied crash-fire and crash-rescue trucks. He was also assigned to extra duty for several months as an augmentee security policeman with the base security police unit to help the security police personnel to man the defensive positions around the base at night guarding the perimeter of their South Vietnamese air base at Binh-Thuy located down in the Mekong Delta from any enemy attacks that had been directed on the aircraft & personnel assigned there. The author was just granted a full compensation pension from the US Veterans Administration as 100% permanet and totally Disabled due to his service connected disabilities from heavy exposure to the herbicide chemical Agent Orange that had been used in Vietnam to kill off the jungle vegetation that grew around the perimeter of bases in Vietnam and had allowed the VC to use it for cover as they tried to sneak up close to the base to attack them. The Agent Orange has been proven over the years to be responsible for many diseases and the problems associated to exposure to this deadly chemical. The author will now receive a service connected pension for the rest of his life, but even that compensation will never stop the terrible pain and suffering he has endured for decades. The Author Today at 61years old.