Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
Opinions
© 2006/2007
J.S. Ketchum
J.S. Ketchum
Documenting a Lost Decade of Clinical Research
Just wanted to thank you so much for my copy of your book. I know you must be so very excited. I will see how many Edgewood Vets that I am in contact with [are interested] and sell as many as possible if you would like me to. The book so far has been very interesting. I look forward to finishing it and calling you with my comments. As you have said, even having not me I too feel like we are good friends. Thanks for everything.
Take care,
Purdie Mae Price (veteran’s friend and frequent correspondent)
Take care,
Purdie Mae Price (veteran’s friend and frequent correspondent)
Many thanks for your wonderfully well-written Chemical Warfare. It’s a remarkable fusion of history, science, and autobiography. You have a novelist’s eye for detail that serves you well from the prologue on.
John Rosenberg, Professor (emeritus),
Columbia University in New York
Department of English and Comparative Literature
John Rosenberg, Professor (emeritus),
Columbia University in New York
Department of English and Comparative Literature
A very impressive effort, your book. I hope it will be carefully read by today's policy-makers. Big thanks for sending a copy.
Best always,
McKinney H. Russell, Sr., Formerly with US Information Agency
Best always,
McKinney H. Russell, Sr., Formerly with US Information Agency
The "BOOK" arrived. Great job, and thank you so much. Judy should be congratulated for pushing you.
Harry Salem
(Edgewood Arsenal Senior Toxicologist)
Harry Salem
(Edgewood Arsenal Senior Toxicologist)
I've been meaning to drop you a line to let you know I found your book absolutely fascinating - tremendously informative and very entertaining at the same time. It is very well written and is one of those rare books that made me question my assumptions and generalizations about those with whom I might disagree in certain areas of politics - your humanity and humor were most apparent and thought-provoking. Thanks for the inscription too!
I hope the USA Today piece brings the book to a wider audience. It certainly deserves it....
(Great email moniker by the way....)
All the best, Pete Vanderkloot
I hope the USA Today piece brings the book to a wider audience. It certainly deserves it....
(Great email moniker by the way....)
All the best, Pete Vanderkloot
Thanks for the copy! Is Tim Scully behind this happy gift?
The book looks even better than he\'d led me to expect. I\'m really delighted, dived right in after it showed up in the mail today.
My dad was a cardiologist at Kirk Army Hospital at A.P.G., where we lived 1966-67. We lived across the street from the tank museum - a field filled with WWII and Korean War era tanks. No more perfect playground could have been invented for a 5-year old boy and his buddies.
I will share more after I get further along in your book, I'm loving it so far. Your writing is excellent, lucid and thoughtful. I have a few questions for you myself, but I assume most of those will be answered as I go along!
Cheers and thanks,
-Steve Wight
The book looks even better than he\'d led me to expect. I\'m really delighted, dived right in after it showed up in the mail today.
My dad was a cardiologist at Kirk Army Hospital at A.P.G., where we lived 1966-67. We lived across the street from the tank museum - a field filled with WWII and Korean War era tanks. No more perfect playground could have been invented for a 5-year old boy and his buddies.
I will share more after I get further along in your book, I'm loving it so far. Your writing is excellent, lucid and thoughtful. I have a few questions for you myself, but I assume most of those will be answered as I go along!
Cheers and thanks,
-Steve Wight
Comments: I was at Edgewood Arsenal in Sep-Oct of 1968, TDY from Fort Dix. My one dosage of BZ left me extremely tired and restless and spasmodic and unable to concentrate, and I saw lots of things crawling on the walls, but no lasting effect that I know of. I can remember falling \"asleep\" a dozen times while trying to read short paragraphs aloud, one of the tests.
I had full confidence in the doctors, and did very well in tear-gas tests.
On the other hand, at age 61, I have a LOT of things the matter with me, probably due to poor health habits during my adult life. I did\'t think my 8 weeks there were a big deal, I'd have immediately signed for 8 more so as to make me too short to go to VN. The food was great, but not much to do on the weekends...it was a vacation.
(name withheld)
I had full confidence in the doctors, and did very well in tear-gas tests.
On the other hand, at age 61, I have a LOT of things the matter with me, probably due to poor health habits during my adult life. I did\'t think my 8 weeks there were a big deal, I'd have immediately signed for 8 more so as to make me too short to go to VN. The food was great, but not much to do on the weekends...it was a vacation.
(name withheld)