Dear Dr. Motola,

In 1971 I boarded a ship that had sailed and anchored in Viet Nam waters that had been heavily sprayed with agent orange. I lived aboard the ship for three years, eating food and drinking water that was processed from those waters.

It has been proven that agent orange causes many cancers and that ships that sailed in those waters was contaminated. In 2000 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, had my prostate removed and received 30 days of radiation treatments. I found other...