york national guard were called up and sent to iraq after the invasion of two thousand and three gerard matthew went there with his unit their job was to score convoys. one of the one who came home after the war and he started having headaches easily irritated by the slightest thing the kids may do has changed a lot like you let me tell you something you've never heard of a headache that you have had six seven headaches a day and any fatalities weighed almost fifty six. i mean it's really debilitating and the headaches that you have yes they're they're short spaced but they come and go. all in another thing i guess he said bumps and skin. really here really here he. was ok here's a letter from. my finally a matthew got in touch with other veterans like hector vega who had similar symptoms they all took a test to see if they had been poisoned by depleted uranium the results were a surprise. he said. you have forty times higher than other soldiers. which makes you gain the person that has the highest level. i said maybe that's the reason why my daughter came up the way she did. the couple has a b