Biden is using his first Veterans Day in office to announce an effort to better understand and identify medical conditions suffered by troops. It centers on the potential connection between rare respiratory cancers and time spent overseas breathing bad air
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden saluted the nation’s military veterans as “the spine of America” Thursday as he marked his first Veterans Day as president in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
This year's Veterans Day commemoration comes just two months after Biden ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, a chaotic ending to America's longest war where 2,461 American service members were killed over the nearly 20-year conflict. “We’re discovering there is a whole host of lung conditions related to deployment,” said Dr. Richard Meehan, an immunologist and rheumatologist. The retired U.S. Naval Reserve officer, who served in the Mideast during the 1990s and again in 2008, is co-director of the Denver-based National Jewish Health Center of Excellence on Deployment-Related Lung Disease., one he said affected his decision to sit out the 2016 presidential race.
“When you compare them to another group, you have to compare them to another healthy, fit group,” Meehan said. “That’s one of the problems overlooked in surveys that have shown no higher incidence of cancer."
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