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> “To criticize the military is one of the last remaining taboos of the American mass media,” he says. “The #OkinawanPeople deserve better, so I’m committed to providing justice for them.”.. “I really hope my book helps people understand how badly the island has been contaminated, especially because so many #AmericanVeterans are sick.” Through his research, he has documented claims from more than 250 veterans that #AgentOrange was stored on #Okinawa during the 1960s and ’70s... #JonMitchell
> ... all the Air Force technicians he spoke to “agreed that the presence of nuclear weapons on Okinawa made it a key target in a preemptive or a retaliatory strike; one of the veterans described #Okinawans as ‘human shields.’” Until that research, “nobody understood that Okinawa has a central part in US #WMD testing, usage, and storage throughout the Pacific,” Mitchell told me.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/okinawa-poisoning-pacific-jon-mitchell/
#JonMitchell #USAF #NoBases
