Legion Eases Stand on Gulf War Illness
After years of battling the Defense Department over “Persian Gulf War illness,” the nation’s largest veterans group said it would drop its confrontational stand and work together with the military establishment to look for answers together. Traveling in Germany, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen promised to do all he could to solve the mystery of what happened to missing logs that tracked chemical weapons during the 1991 war. The records could prove that soldiers may have been exposed to poisons. The American Legion represents 3 million veterans, including 45,000 from the Gulf War.
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