an estimated eleven million gallons of agent orange were spread over nine which is a country geographically can comparable to the state of georgia and how did you come into contact w air force vietnam veteran i stand before all of you today diagnosed with thirty two different illnesses diseases and birth facts these are all presumed to be associated with my father's exposure to agent orange despite the obvious fact that i don't look sick and i look exactly like many of you here today i am thirty years old and i live with debilitating and life threatening illnesses such as kidney disease kidney failure addison's disease crones disease the inability to have children because of a complete pelvic floor collapse even though i have never been pregnant for all the children of vietnam veterans that are living out there in pain sick dying or walking in the shoes that no one can understand unless you are the child of a vietnam veteran we also founded cover had to fight for the services and support that so many of us don't receive as gnocchi mentioned when she first started here there are seventeen plus birth defects that are approved if you are the child of a female vietnam veteran at most five thousand women served in vietnam and has mostly said earlier only one birth in fact i that we are trying to do is get those illnesses approved for the children of male vietnam veterans however one of the problems we has cubs call ourselves face when we go to our doctor's office is being looked at when we say my father served in vietnam he was exposed to agent orange i have this this this and this has health issues they look at you with two halves are members do you know don't want to go to doctors anymore they're embarrassed so we came with a doctor's letter basically and it's everything we want your doctors to know and i have a great team of doctors that took me a long time to get they worked personally with me on this so that way our members can go on  web site print this out and say here put this in my file one of the other things we're working hard to do is petition the i may when you all go to say at your primary physician's office you fill out a form that says do you have eye problems did your father have cancer is there a history of this that or the other thing we want on those forms are you the child of a vietnam veteran or have you been exposed to agent orange or dioxin please understand that dioxin says one of the things that cover does it's good databases on the second generation health issues that our members report we are nearing eight hundred illnesses reported by children of vietnam veterans we are not saying that because you report an allergy it's because of agent orange we are saying that because you report a health problem our bodies are more prone to become ill our immune systems are weak facts such as cleft palate hip dysplasia and clubfoot are on the illnesses that are approved for the female vietnam veterans kids they are the same illnesses that the children of male vietnam veterans have my name is kelly derrick's i am the proud daughter of a true tour united states air force vietnam veteran one that lost his life thirty two years ago i was the seven year old little girl he left behind thank you