Sue, and all, I have been reading your posts. I would like to hear from others about their feelings about their days at Ft. McClellan, and what happened to them in the VA Health Care System?

I have had some wonderful memories of the women that were in Delta Co. with me in March to July, of 1968. However, the good memories ended when I got terribly sick from something at McClellan.

Near the end of Basic Training, I became extremely weak. I went in the service, happy, strong and healthy----I received high scores in everything, including physical fitness.

After 35 years of living in pain, and sometimes being in a hospital 6 times a year----I needed to know what happened at Ft. McClellan, that made me so ill.

In 1980, one of my doctors saved my life. He discovered I had Porphyria. My whole family got tested, but I appeared to be the only one with this rare enzyme deficiencies, that affected by Red Blood Cells, and all the organs of my body, and my nervous system.

At first they thought I had Multiple Sclerosis, but spinal taps, and MRI's and other tests, reavealed it wasn't. One of my doctors decided to check me for porphyria, on a hospital stay, in which I was again very sick. The tests were positive.

My care before that, by the army and VA, was so neglectful and abusive, that I wanted to tell you all about it. Why? Because I believe many of you, went through what I also survived.

I was never told about the Monsanto PCBs, and had I known that Edgewood Arsenal(Research) Center, was there---my care would have been different. The Army, DoD, Monsanto, Edgewood Research---have caused me a life time of anxiety, worry, anger and pain.

I lost a child with massive liver failure---3 days after birth. How many of you have lost children, and you don't know why?

Two other children were born, with other health problems. One with Intrinsic asthma and the other, I watch suffer, with a strange condition of his bones and nervous system. He lives in constant pain---He almost died last year. His pain is so horrible, he wants to die.

My genetic disease was not inherited;rather, I believe it was "Acquired". There are only 2 ways to get this condition. Exposure to multiple chemicals and other hazardous materials.

I can't tell my adult children anything yet, as I don't really know the truth. And how would I tell my daughter and son, what happened to me?
I look at my grandchildren, and can only pray, they don't suffer like me.

Ft. McClellan, was a "SUPERFUND CLEAN-UP" !!!
Someone, does not want us to know the truth, of what they did there.

I don't want this to be a "bitch session". That is not why I am posting. I want you to share with me, your true feelings, and what happened to you at Ft. McClellan and what happened to you when you left?

This isn't about just me, or Sue---it is about you too and finding the "Truth". Women, there is no honor in knowing we have been deceived, treated less than animals, and left to suffer and die---never to know why.

The Army, and DoD, knew we would become sickened after the PCBs---but Sue and I found out other things from the EPA reports, and news articles, and historic facts about Edgewood, and their work with the Army Chemical Corps at McClellan and many other places.

I wonder daily if we were Edgewoods "Great Experiement" with approval of DoD and the Army?

What kind of monsters are men, who willing, plot and plan to cover up, the facts we now know. Governmental figures (military strategists) made sure, records would not be found, put out no warning about the PCB's of Monsanto; poisoning the whole city of Anniston,which included Ft. McClellan.

There are reports that even show the Veterans Adminsistration knew, and did nothing, but watch many suffer, and even die horrible deaths. Can I say honestly that I feel a monstrous act has been covered up? Yes !

Sue Frasier knows what I am now living and the horrible abusive and neglectful care I received from the VA. I was treated less than an animal. And my goodness, how they learned to make us veterans, like rats through their Adminstrative Mazes. Several times I was begging for care, in the most awful pain, with VA doctors to walk out of my room, saying nothing. I was basically left to suffer and die, with no care for my life. My family suffered with me.

Ladies, I finally went to my Congressman and Senator for help, and they did help a little. In the process of establish the correct diagnosis in the computer at Tampa---Senator Bill Nelson, (for 5 years) got to watch, (Congressional Review)the way the VA treated me. He was on the phone many times to Orlando and Tampa VA.

So here is you chance for healing and support for others. You have feelings as I. Sue cares more than you know, and here you can open up, and speak the truth.

Let your hearts and voice speak out, for the truth. What happened at Ft. McClellan, and what are your feelings now?