[Newspoetry] Shame of SHAD

[William Gillespie]

I am pleased to see a poem on this topic, but want to understand the topic
better. I know that Gulf War Syndrome was dismissed by army psychologists
as "stress caused by the return to civilian life" when it was almost
certainly some kind of poisoning through contact with weaponry or
petrochemicals. And I don't know that Gulf War Syndrome has been addressed
by the mushmouth administration in their grand scheme to remove evil from
the universe or at least anywhere there are rich oil deposits. (by the
way, isn't an axis a line and therefore defined by two points of evil and
not several?)

But what is SHAD?

(Do you want your poetry set in all-caps? It's kind of an interesting
effect, like one is getting poetry via telegram)

William

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 Mhubertw at aol.com wrote:

> IN THE "FINEST" TRADITIONS OF VETERANS HEALTHCARE TREATMENT BY THE UNITED
> STATES GOVERNMENT, NOW COMES PROJECT SHIPBOARD HAZARD AND DEFENSE (SHAD) AND
> THE INEVITABLE EVASION OF GOVERNMENT  RESPONSIBILITY.  VETERAN VICTIMS OF
> ATOMIC TESTS, AGENT ORANGE, GULF WAR SYNDROME, ETC. WILL SADLY UNDERSTAND
> THIS LATEST SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT IN TREATMENT OF ITS
> VETERANS!
>
>
> SHAME OF SHAD
>
> WORDS ABOUT SHIPBOARD HAZARD AND DEFENSE
> WILL NOT BE MINCED!
> VETERANS WERE HAD BY PROJECT SHAD!
> STARTING IN YEAR '63,
> OUR GOVERNMENT WENT ON A POISIONING SPREE!
> TEST EAGER BELLE STARTED THE HEALTHCARE HELL.
> WHEN IT REALLY ENDED, NO ONE WILL TELL!
> WERE THERE MORE AFTER YEAR '74?
> CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TESTS
> WERE DONE ON MANY OF AMERICA'S BEST!
> NOW THIS PART OF PROJECT ONE TWELVE,
> NO ONE WANT TO DELVE!
> VETERANS OF ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINES,
> MANY NOW HAVE REAL QUESTIONS AND NEEDS!
> WITH TESTS LIKE COPPER HEAD AND SHADY GROVE,
> WHY HAVE NOT SHAD VETERANS BEEN FULLY TOLD?
> THE COWARD OF CRAWFORD AND HIS CHICKENHAWKS,
> ABOUT THIS THEY DO NOT TALK.
> THEY RECEIVE THE BEST OF CARE,
> WHILE THE WORST, SHAD AND OTHER VETERANS BEAR!
>
> HUBERT WILSON
>