The Casualties of Combat

There are volumes of anecdotal reports of ill health from the Persian Gulf War. Commonly, it is called the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’. A recent study has shown that chemical exposure during that combat has caused “decreased volume in two brain regions intimately linked to learning and memory”.

The findings showed “significant cognitive deficiencies in soldiers exposed to the plume resulting from the destruction of a suspected chemical weapons depot at Khamisiyah in southeastern Iraq in March 1991. Overall, 100,000 soldiers were informed that they might have encountered the nerve agent sarin in the blast.”

link: Symptomatic Persian Gulf War Vets Show Brain-Volume Deficits

As the veterans from that combat age, the extent of the damage from the chemical exposure is becoming better understood and documented. What is frightening is to consider whether there has been any compromise of the ‘dna chain’ for those who were exposed. If such is the case, future generations become casualties of combat.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
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