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Jon Stewart Pays Tribute To Wesley Black, Advocate For Veterans Exposed To Burn Pits, As Joe Biden Pledges “More Nimble And Responsive” Action

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Jon Stewart’s new Apple+ series posted a Veterans Day podcast on Thursday that features an interview with Staff Sergeant Wesley Black, who died on Sunday, shortly after the episode was recorded.Black, 36, was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer that his oncologist linked to exposure to burn pits while he served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The exposure to the military’s burning of waste in open air pits has been called “the Agent Orange of the post-9/11 generation.”Stewart has called attention to the need to extend benefits and pass legislation to help those veterans.

He’s spotlighted specific cases, including that of Black, who himself has been trying to raise awareness of the issue, the need for early detection and the urgency for the

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