Agent Orange
Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam
June 3, 2021Despite repeated promises to do more for the victims of Agent Orange, to this day not a single Vietnamese victim has seen a dollar of compensation from the U.S. government.
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Toxic legacy: How the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange poisoned Vietnam
June 2, 2021From 1961 to 1973, the U.S. military dropped an estimated 81,000,000 liters of various chemicals on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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My Lai massacre exhibit puts Vietnam War in broad perspective
April 6, 2018We often honor the soldiers who fought, but forget that we had the luxury, as a country, to go to war where other people lived.
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Researchers call for more study of Agent Orange effects on vets and their kids
May 16, 2016Researchers are urging Congress to fund a new center for the study of veterans' exposure to toxic substances.
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The Vietnam War is not over
April 13, 2011When I served as an Army medic in Vietnam, I often saw a 19-year-old solider whose job was to spray an herbicide called Agent Orange on anything green inside my base.
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