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Honorably (Secretary, Senator and also Congressmen),
I am writing to ask why the VA has stopped sending to the Gulf War Review. This was a vital link for
many of us sick Desert Storm veterans and what the VA was doing to help us. I have not seen one since
July of 2010 yet there has been many very important changes to the laws and regulations that affect me
that you promised to keep me informed about.
One of the most important change that I just learned about on Facebook in December of 2013
that happened in after the last review 2010: In October 2010, the VA deleted from Section 3.317 language
that provided that only the Secretary of Veterans Affairs could determine whether any illness other than chronic
fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome constituted a “medically unexplained chronic
multisymptom illness.” The VA explained that the purpose of the amendment was to “delegate[] to VA adjudicators
the authority to determine on a case-by-case basis whether additional diseases meet the criteria of [a medically
unexplained chronic multisymptom illness] in the same manner as they make other determinations necessary in
deciding claims.” Therefore, if there is evidence that a Persian Gulf, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation
Enduring Freedom veteran’s condition fits the definition of a “medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness”
as found in the regulation, service connected should be awarded, provided that the condition first became manifest
during the veteran’s service in the Southwest Asia --
The VA should have sent this very important information out to me; but can you explain it to me still is
not? Please remember that many of us Forgotten Warriors who are ill from our service have some
cognitive dysfunction problems. Thus, it is imperative that in writing the ‘Gulf War Review’ the VA must
not use the scientific terminologies without explaining them in layman terms, too. So please always
remember the audience that you are writing for.
I would like to know what happened to Dr. Li’s study that I hear presented at one of the RAC meetings.
He proved that we Forgotten Warriors are having much higher rate of peripheral neuropathies. His
study was done at the Washington D.C. WRIISC. Where did it go? Why is Peripheral neuropathy not a
presumptive due to this study? Should it not have been in the Review?
Please help us Desert Storm veterans so that we are no longer ‘The Forgotten Warriors II’
Thank you for your time in this urgent matter.
A sick veteran,
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