I RECEIVED THIS INFORMATION FROM A CAV BROTHER VIA EMAIL SUNDAY JUNE 5 2007
HI, I GOT THE VERY BOTTOM MESSAGE TODAY FROM A NAM VET BUDDY OF MINE IN AUSTRALIA. WE DON’T KNOW WHO WROTE
THE BOTTOM INFO, I WROTE THIS TOP TELLING HIM IN REPLY TO MY VIETNAM MILK ENCOUNTER ONE DAY.
GET THIS, BEFORE NAM I WAS A VERY GOOD CHEF FOR MY DAD WHO MANAGED HOLIDAY INN , THEN WHEN I WENT INTO THE ARMY AS I
WAS BEING DRAFTED SO I SIGNED UP AND I TRIED TO GET THEM TO LET ME BECOME A COOK IN THE ARMY. WELL NO WAY, BUT EVERY FORT
I TRAINED AT I ALWAYS LIKED KP BECAUSE THE COOKS ALWAYS LET ME HELP THEM COOK. SO, ONE DAY I WAS AT SOME BASE, I THINK IT
WAS QUAN LOI FSB. WELL I CAME ACROSS THREE ONE GALLON CANS OF RASPBERRIES THAT AND A SOME HALF GALLONS OF FOREMOST MILK, MAYBE
THEY WERE QUARTS CAN’T RECALL. THEY WERE STILL COLD BUT SITTING OUT BACK OF THE COOKS TENT, WHEN I ASKED WHAT WAS UP
WITH THEM THEY TOLD ME THAT SINCE LUNCH WAS OVER THEY WERE GOING TO THROW THEM OUT AS THEY WOULD SPOIL SINCE THEY HAD NO PLACE
TO KEEP THEM COLD. SO I TOOK THEM AND THE RASPBERRIES AND I GAVE AWAY TWO GALLONS OF RASPBERRIES, ONE GALLON TO A BUDDY AND
ONE GALLON TO SOME GIRLS FOR SOME TRINKETS THEY WERE SELLING BUT WE TRADED.
SO ANYWAY HERE WE WERE BACK OUT IN THE BUSH
THAT DAY AND FOR AN AFTERNOON SNACK I DRANK THE MILK AND THEN MIXED WHAT WAS LEFT WITH THE BERRIES AFTER I ATE THEM DOWN AND
SHARED THEM WITH SOME GUYS, THEN I POURED THE MILK IN THE BERRIES TO MAKE IT LIKE BERRIES AND CREAM, BUT IT WAS THAT MILK.
IT WAS SO GOOD, VERY GOOD, BUT AFTER THAT I GOT REAL, REAL SICK. MY GUTS HURT SO BAD I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT, AND IT EVENTUALLY
SUBSIDED BUT I NEVER FORGOT IT. NOW THIS INFO SHOWS UP! I DRANK IT???
WE ALL DRANK SOME BUT I GUZZLED IT AND THEN HAD IT EVEN MORE WITH BERRIES.
MY NEW SLOGAN IS THIS:
THE VIETNAM
WAR!
THE WAR THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!!
SOME COMPANY HAS A SLOGAN LIKE THAT, DON’T RECALL WHO. THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION
I WILL PASS IT ON.
LUCKY, I AM
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IF YOU DRANK MILK IN 'NAM BETWEEN 1965 AND 1972 YOU INGESTED AGENT ORANGE AND A VARIETY OF OTHER HERBICIDE RESIDUES.
AS YOU MAY KNOW, THE FOREMOST MILK COMPANY (NOW OUT OF BUSINESS IN THE US) BASED IN LOS ANGELES HELD THE DOD CONTRACT
FOR THE US MILITARY'S MILK SUPPLY IN SO'EAST ASIA. BEFORE AND AFTER SHIPPING PACKAGED 'FINISHED MILK' IN ITS DISTINCTIVE ORANGE/WHITE
CONTAINERS, FOREMOST SHIPPED A MILK CONCENTRATE TO 'NAM WHICH WAS TO BE MIXED WITH WATER. UNFORTUNATELY THE WATER USED WAS
TAKEN FROM THE SAIGON RIVER WHICH, DOD BELATEDLY LEARNED, WAS INFESTED WITH HERBICIDE DRAINAGE. FOREMOST USA WENT DEFUNCT
SEVERAL YEARS AGO BUT FOREMOST VIETNAM IS STILL IN OPERATION.
MILK BECAME AN ESSENTIAL EXPORT BY THE USG TO VIETNAM AFTER 1967 AFTER DOCTORS IN THE STATES DISCOVERED THEY WERE TREATING
LARGE NUMBERS OF VIETNAM VETS SUFFERING FROM GASTROENTERITIS AND OTHER COLON INFLAMMATORY ILLNESSES DUE TO LACK OF THE ENZYME
USED BY THE INTESTINES TO DIGEST MILK. IF A PERSON CONTINUES TO DRINK MILK THEIR BODY WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THE ENZYME
(KIND OF LIKE A WET NURSE WHO CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE BREAST MILK FOR DECADES AFTER GIVING BIRTH AS LONG AS HER MILK CONTINUES
TO BE SUCKLED.)
HOWEVER, IF A PERSON STOPS DRINKING MILK THEIR BODY STOPS PRODUCING THE ENZYME. BECAUSE MILK WAS NOT AS
AVAILABLE IN 'NAM DURING AMERICA'S EARLY DEPLOYMENT THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS ASSIGNED TO VIETNAM GRADUALLY STOPPED PRODUCING
THE ENZYME... BUT WHEN THEY RETURNED BACK TO THE WORLD THE FIRST THING THEY CONSUMED IN LARGE QUANTITIES WAS MILK... WHICH
MADE THEM SICK BECAUSE THEY COULD NO LONGER ADEQUATELY DIGEST IT.
AS A RESULT, FOREMOST WAS CONTRACTED TO ENSURE THERE
WAS ALWAYS A LARGE SUPPLY OF MILK FOR GI'S TO CONSUME. UNFORTUNATELY, THE HIGH DEMAND RESULTED IN ITS VIETNAM PRODUCTION BEING
MIXED WITH TAINTED WATER. HENCE, MANY AMERICAN'S WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM BUT HAD NO DIRECT CONTACT WITH HERBICIDE DISTRIBUTION
OR DEPLOYMENT CONTRACTED THE CHEMICALS THROUGH THE MILK THEY DRANK.
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