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James48

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13. It is good that they are filing suit now.

Reply to caraher (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 03:01 PM

Dec 2012

The VA certainly won't be helpful at this point for that particular exposure-

I and many others were exposed to significant doses of radition following Chernobyl. We were in Germany, when rains brought down radioactivity in Wuerzburg area - and to this day I can't get the VA to recognize the radioactivity hazard I and others were exposed to when we had to do morning PT in the wet grass laden with radioactive dew.

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