{"id":4266,"date":"2019-04-04T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-praises-va-move-to-help-navy-veterans-hurt-by-agent-orange\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:52","slug":"merkley-praises-va-move-to-help-navy-veterans-hurt-by-agent-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-praises-va-move-to-help-navy-veterans-hurt-by-agent-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley elogia el movimiento de VA para ayudar a los veteranos de la Marina heridos por el Agente Naranja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>El senador Jeff Merkley respondi\u00f3 a&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2019\/03\/26\/va-drop-fight-against-blue-water-navy-veterans.html\">informes<\/a><span>&nbsp;que el Secretario del Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos de los EE. UU., Robert Wilkie, les dijo a los miembros del Comit\u00e9 de Asuntos de los Veteranos del Senado el martes que recomendar\u00e1 al Departamento de Justicia de los EE. o barcos de la Guardia Costera durante la Guerra de Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsta es una buena noticia. Durante a\u00f1os he estado luchando junto a los veteranos de la Armada de Oregon Blue Water y organizaciones de apoyo para obtener la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica completa y los beneficios por discapacidad que se les deben a todos los veteranos expuestos al Agente Naranja. Hacemos un pacto con aquellos que sirven que estaremos all\u00ed para ellos al igual que ellos nos defendieron a todos. Hemos incumplido esa promesa con aproximadamente 90,000 veteranos de la Marina Blue Water que han sufrido las consecuencias para la salud de servir a su pa\u00eds, y ahora el VA finalmente est\u00e1 cumpliendo con esa obligaci\u00f3n.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPero la lucha por el cuidado adecuado de este grupo de veteranos no ha terminado. Por eso estoy copatrocinando el&nbsp;<i>Ley de equidad para los veteranos de la DMZ coreana de 2019<\/i>&nbsp;y otra legislaci\u00f3n que extender\u00eda los beneficios a todos los veteranos que estuvieron expuestos al Agente Naranja durante su servicio, sin importar d\u00f3nde o cu\u00e1ndo sirvieron. Es una completa injusticia excluir a tantos veteranos de la atenci\u00f3n necesaria. Estos hombres y mujeres respondieron al llamado de su pa\u00eds, y ya es hora de que su pa\u00eds se ocupe de ellos. Sus sacrificios deben ser reconocidos y merecen acceso a beneficios y atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica de la m\u00e1s alta calidad\u201d.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jeff Merkley&nbsp;responded to&nbsp;reports&nbsp;that U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs&nbsp;Secretary Robert Wilkie told members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Tuesday that he will recommend the U.S. Department of Justice not fight a January court ruling that ordered the VA to provide health care and benefits to veterans who served on Navy&nbsp;or Coast Guard&nbsp;ships during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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