Huffington Post – by Lynne Peeples
In 1991, as part of Operation Desert Storm, former U.S. Army Spc. Candy Lovett arrived in Kuwait a healthy 29-year-old eager to serve her country. Two decades later, she’s accumulated a stack of medical records over five feet high — none of which relates to injuries inflicted by bullets or shrapnel.
“It’s just been one thing after another,” said the veteran, who now resides in Miami and whose ailments run the gamut from lung disease and sleep apnea to, most recently, terminal breast cancer. “At one point,” she said, “I was on over 50 pills.” Continue reading “Gulf War Syndrome, Other Illnesses Among Veterans May Be Due To Toxic Environments”















