During that demolition operation, there were no reports of chemical munitions, nor were there reports of anyone experiencing symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical agents.

.The reports indicated that the problem is so severe that there had to be demolition of construction in some instances where the cement was used.

In retrospect, it is clear that fallout from the oil well fires could affect detection equipment and could have caused many of the chemical alerts recorded by the 11th Marines.

If families are important, if people are important, we should be willing to pay what's necessary. We should be willing to make the appropriate investment in our people.

Put pieces of the information together. The bunker had destroyed chemical munitions. We destroyed the bunker. Well, I guess I have to conclude that there were chemical weapons destroyed.

No operation should be carried out unless absolutely necessary . . . nor should a surgeon operate unless he would undergo the same operation himself in similar circumstances, ... The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery.