I volunteered to go because I thought if I go someone whose married with kids, I was single at the time, I wanted to go just to save someone else going. I wanted to go and do my bit.

My memory is shot to ribbons. I work as a postman now. I can actually forget parts of my rounds so I tend to carry around a book with me. And I've been doing the same round for six/seven months at a time but I can actually forget where I am in the middle of a postal round. I say that the main core thing for me is the fatigue side, like I say I almost feel as if I'm thirty five but I almost feel as though I'm getting towards seventy or eighty sometimes.

When Holly [daughter] was born I started thinking about things. She was born and given a clean bill of health. She was about three or four weeks early but she was cleared perfectly immediately after birth by the doctors at the time. About twenty four hours after she was born, I was getting ready to feed her she literally stopped breathing, she turned blue and almost died in my wife's arm. So she was rushed into the intensive special care unit where she stayed for two/three weeks. A few months after that I noticed a programme on television where they were interviewing American Veterans and their families and apparently birth defects and problems, particularly respiratory was a very, very common link throughout the veteran community in the United States. And I'm really concerned that what I'm carrying within me, which is as yet undiagnosed, can be passed on even to my wife let alone Holly."

Andrew Hagen,

Naafi Manager.