Top 16 Quotes by Christopher Shays

We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.