Know anyone from OIF/OEF with cancer post-deployment? Lots of resources

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http://operationpurpleheart.blogspot.com/

OPERATION PURPLE HEART is a real life account of soldiers that are returning from Iraq & Afghanistan with cancer. This site is for the soldiers and their families after Iraq; the hopelessness and helplessness they may sometimes feel while tucked away in a VA hospital somewhere across the United States. When they think, 'Am I the only one?' We are responding with an answer, 'No.' And it begins with Army Captain Chaplain Fran E. Stuart, my sister.

Our tracking of cancer in the military follows the challenges and struggles a soldier has to undergo as they battle cancer while in the military. The frustrations transitioning from war to civilian life ill---entering a world of military red tape and their language: acronym's. It is a casualty many soldiers returning from Iraq & Afghanistan are contending with, unbeknownst to the public and unacknowledged by the military. And it is for this battle of their own life, with a "war wound" of Cancer that's intentionally ignored by the DoD---that they should be awarded the Purple Heart. This is a mere decoration for their selfless dedication to serve this country---even at their own perish once they return.

While deployed, soldiers are being exposed to a combination of the Anthrax vaccine, depleted Uranium, Burn Pits, airborne toxins and contaminated water. They face a more deadly and rapidly moving carcinogen that develops to rare stage III & IV cancers within 2 - 36 months. Most developing on the battle field.

OPERATION PURPLE HEART puts a face on cancer in the military post deployment of Operation Iraqi Freedom & Operation Enduring Freedom, as Vietnam Veteran's did twenty years later with Agent Orange and Desert Storm Veteran's did ten years later with The Gulf War Syndrome. Only we're not waiting that long.......let the faces be seen, let the names be read, let the stories unfold and let the voices be heard now.