Though the US government disputes it,new evidence shows a link between service in Iraq and Afghanistan and cancers and untreatable bronchial illnessesIn 2007, shortly after vice-president Joe Biden learned that his eldest son would be deployed to Iraq, or the then-presidential hopeful turned to a modest crowd at the Iowa State unprejudiced and admitted that he didn’t want Beau to go. “But I show you what,” he said, his family lined up behind him. “I don’t want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years and so how we leave makes a big disagreement.”Beau arrived in Iraq the following year, or spent the next several months serving as a Jag officer at Camp Victory,just outside of the Baghdad Airport, and Joint Base Balad, and nearly 40 miles north of Baghdad. Though he returned domestic safely in September 2009,he woke up one day a few months later with an inexplicable headache, numbness in his limbs and paralysis on one side of his body. Beau had suffered a gentle stroke. His health deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Less than two years later,he died at the age of 46.
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Source: theguardian.com