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Mon Jan 20, 2020, 07:59 PM Jan 2020

Jon Stewart joins fight to help veterans exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits


Jon Stewart joins fight to help veterans exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits
Jeff Schogol
January 20, 2020 at 11:43 AM


Comedian Jon Stewart has joined forces with veterans groups to make sure service members who have been sickened by toxins from burn pits get the medical care they need, according to the Military Officers Association of America.

"Quite frankly, this is not just about burn pits — it's about the way we go to war as a country," Stewart said during his Jan. 17 visit to Washington, D.C. "We always have money to make war. We need to always have money to take care of what happens to people who are selfless enough, patriotic enough, to wage those wars on our behalf."


Stewart traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with MOAA and other veterans groups that make up the Toxic Exposures in the American Military coalition, a MOAA news release says.

Once widely used on U.S. bases, burn pits are believed to have contributed to cancer, skin diseases, and respiratory illnesses among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As of Jan. 6, a total of 192,000 veterans and service members have reported health problems that they believe are related to their deployments by taking part in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.

"We want to make sure we do this smart," Stewart said on Jan. 17. "We're not going to get a lot of shots with this. "After all that you've given, the last thing you should be doing is fighting the very country that you gave so much to. It makes no sense."


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