35:31 And I cannot tell you the problems we're seeing from that. The veterans that are doing acts of violence, the veterans that are committing suicide... It is very very frightening and that's a reason why I'm on here tonight and I appreciate your giving me this opportunity to say this if your a veteran and your sick don't give up because were her for you there people who are here for you and don't give up do not think your country has abandoned Your country doesn't know about this yet, but they're going to know. And I want every veteran to know that there are people everywhere that do care and want to know the truth of this. And the lady you're looking at right now... You're the one. You're really the hero. Well- And I would think that you...I wonder how many phone calls you've taken?
36:17 You know, because you just have always said call me. Call me. Call Me I'm here and your life is at this point and your husband's too it revolves around this doesn't it? Oh absolutely Absolutely that's all we do thats all we think about day and night now We get Gulf War veterans phone calls especially from the 82nd Airborne 101st airborne Big Red One out of Kansas They're really sick. They're very sick. Third Armored Division, Second Armored Division Fort Bliss a lot of those people are sick. Fort Bragg is a very sick base and they're not allowed if they're still in the military to talk about it Now here's a statistic that's very important and that is 90% of the Gulf War veterans served are already out of the military So that's including Guard Reserve and active duty. Ninety percent are already out
37:08 So, Colin Powell said there was going to be a downsizing right after the war of 25%. We've seen 90% The Big Red One in Kansas was letting out people to the tune of 350 a day because they knew they were gonna be sick. They knew that had these exposures They knew that we're gonna have problems because people started getting sick during the Gulf War so now we've got the problem what's happened with this people They are in your city and everybody else And the problem with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia is that this disease affects now, the general population. Six million fibromyalgia patients? Eighteen million chronic fatigue patients? Where did these come from? Well we know that mycoplasma has been experimented with by the U.S. government since 1970s... late 1970's and 1980's
38:00 as a carrier agent for other things. And now we don't know what it's carrying, but we know that about 40% of the people that contact us at the American Gulf War Veterans Association have damage to their immune systems. They're suffering from multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre, Lou Gehrigs, scleroderma, lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue... very serious diseases. Let me just say this Joyce, can I This is just my opinion. My opinion is that we're not going to get very far, I mean you're obviously doing good work with all this but with what you said here tonight your accusing the DOD and Pentagon of cover ups and all that and I totally agree with all that but then when you make a statement to the point that these people were over there fighting for this country
38:52 That's, to me that just kind of defeating the whole purpose for this. In my opinion that is not what this was all about. Okay well let's say that is what we believe we were doing. Yeah okay but that needs to be stressed because as long as we continue to maintain these lies and throwing out this rhetoric that the other side throws out I think it will be harder to get people to accept this But in good faith is what we all are trying to say isn't it? In good faith men and women said I will go fight. Right? That's right, that's exactly what you were doing. Sure but do you come to understand now that we were dupes
39:36 Absolutely, I know that. Those wars have nothing to do with protecting the Constitution or defending and protecting the borders of the United States? Oh absolutely! That was a six o'clock news war. Yeah right... Well all you have to is look at what's going on right now with Saddam Hussein I mean, we're going to go to war with a guy. We started all this escalation because somebody put a piece of paper over our lens camera and wouldn't let him see in the room what was in the room? Is that a reason to fight a war or is that affecting our boundaries? Of course not! No, it's not why we are doing it because he's usurping the UN resolution so were supposed to send our young 18-19 year old people to fight because his airplanes are usurping the UN no fly zone