2-28-03
Dear President Bush,
Presently you are concerned and addressing the possibility of chemical attacks by terrorist against the United States and how to best protect us from such harm. We come today asking you to extend that concern and protect the citizens of the United States of America from the daily assaults of toxic chemicals found in our everyday personal and household products and the environment through awareness and education. By teaching and practicing better stewardship as preventative measures, we can make a positive difference and save lives.
Today we received a call from Lana in the proclamation department of the Whitehouse. She requested a letter from us, addressed to you explaining our request for such a proclamation. She also stated that she did not have the letters and proclamations we sent to you on March 3rd, 2001, Oct. 8th, 2001, or June 23rd, 2002. Some time during that period we had also sent them upon the request of Michael Sharp to the Whitehouse Correspondence Office. Back on 12/07/01 Michael Sharp called stating that he had forwarded our request on to the proclamation department and that we would be hearing from them soon. This request has been ongoing since 2001. Copies of our letters and proclamations to you can be seen at: www.ncchem.com/mcsbeacon
We are in daily contact with numerous groups nationwide and as May is again fast approaching many support groups, awareness & education organizations and foundations are already busy planning their annual events to raise awareness and education and to make known the readily available safer choices, products, and practices. Millions of toxically injured and ill people and their families and friends, across our great nation are anxiously awaiting your signature proclaiming May as National “MCS” Awareness & Education month.
Toxic Injury also know to many as “MCS” may include but is not
limited to Reactive Airway Dysfunction, Brain Encephalopathy, Parkinson’s, Gulf War
Illness, ADD, ADHD, Cancer, MS, Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, and more.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, 37 million Americans
suffer from environmental illness.
We need to confront these problems and not pass them on to future generations. Certainly the physical, emotional, financial and spiritual health and welfare of all people deserve the same respect and acknowledgement as the numerous month long proclamations already supporting other worthy causes. There is no justification to allow continued exposures when less toxic and non-toxic alternatives are readily available. Our pain and suffering has been long and ongoing, and many of us have had to bury our dead. Their lives lost and the cause has gone unrecognized. To avoid misdiagnoses it is Imperative for one to be seen by a specialist in the field of Environmental Health, Neurology, and Toxicology. Early diagnosis is critical to avoid disability.
In your
inauguration speech you said: Government has great responsibilities for
public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools. Yet
compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government. You also said:
Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not
strangers; they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us
are diminished when any are hopeless.
President Bush, please do not treat us as strangers or problems, but as priorities. Millions right here in the United States want nothing more than to help raise awareness and education as preventative measures and many are already doing so to keep other families from suffering these senseless tragedies. Isn’t it only right and proper that our president and government back us in helping to save lives and lifestyles? The cost of prevention would lower medical and disability costs and pails drastically in comparison to the cost of silently standing by while millions more lose their health, jobs, financial stability, and quality of life and/or lives. The futures of our children and our future leaders are being stolen by avoidable toxic exposures and air pollution. Who will be left to teach the children and run our country if everyone is too ill to and/or unable to learn or function normally?
By visiting: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/31032/petition.html you can read the messages, feel the pain, the hurt, the loss and isolation imposed on the citizens of America and other countries and their cries for you to sign this proclamation.
If you like we could hold a ceremony to kick off the first National “MCS” Awareness & Education Month along with TV coverage where you, President Bush could hand deliver our copy of signed proclamation to us either here in South Carolina or Florida. Given notice we could manage to have some good ole Southern food and hospitality on hand for your dining pleasure.
A Mind…a Body…a Future... the Environment, what Terrible Things to Waste!
Please, sign the proclamation today.
Together we can make a positive difference!
Sincerely,
Your friends in health and hope,
Peggy & Julia