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The verdict…”Guilty” in the case of the government’s complicity in using Agent Orange
August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
The never-ending saga of the Vietnam War
August 29th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange | Read More »
I have given you readers, our government officials, and our media over the past decades the facts as I can find it on our herbicide issues ‘with documented references.’
August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
The Mexico-Vietnam Friendly Parliamentarians Group on August 11 declared support for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in their struggle for justice.
August 13th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
August 10th marked the 50th anniversary of the commencement of using Agent Orange defoliant in Vietnam and other countries of Southeast Asia. This is not a momentous occasion by any stretch of the imagination.
August 11th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Benefits,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
The US must admit its responsibility and compensate the Agent Orange victims in Vietnam. It is your moral obligation. Sooner or later, it has to be done”, said Len Aldis, Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society.
August 10th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
Thousands of people walked around Hanoi’s Thien Quang Lake in the morning of August 7 to raise fund for Agent Orange victims.
August 9th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
Former U.S. Army Captain Phil Steward provided testimony to the Korean National Assembly on Monday, August 1st, on the U.S. Army’s use of herbicdes in Korea during 1968-1969, according to a news story in The Chosunilbo and confirmed in an email from Steward to me today.
August 7th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
On August 10th 1961, the US Air force began spraying chemicals over Vietnam . Several events will take place this year to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that dreadful act.
August 4th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
There has been misinformation spread by the media that all files for compensation for Agent Orange related presumptive illnesses must be filed by August 30th, 2011. UNTRUE and FALSE!
August 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,Medical Disability Benefits,Vet News | Read More »
If ‘justice for all’ were more than misty sentiment appended to a perfunctory ‘pledge of allegiance,’ H.R. 2634 — a bill seeking broad and long delayed remedial action on behalf of all Vietnam Era victims of Agent Orange — would sail through Congress and gain swift approval from the President.
August 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
Many U.S. soldiers who served in Korea in the 1960s and 70s sprayed the lethal defoliant Agent Orange throughout Korea, a former U.S. Army captain told a National Assembly hearing on Monday.
July 27th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
Today was not like every other day for many of us. For veterans having to deal with a proposed amendment to the Military Construction Bill I wrote about earlier.
July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange | Read More »
Using such modern tools as ground-penetrating radar and conducting analyses of water and soil core samples, a team of investigators in South Korea is searching for clues to a decades-old mystery:
July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
Biodefense facilities in Fort Detrick, Maryland have nearby residents rightfully concerned about a host of diseases many believe are related to Army activities that include Agent Orange testing during the Vietnam War. Most recently, a possible cancer cluster has been the subject an intense investigation.
July 15th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
We still find it difficult to completely forget one of the uglier and far-reaching atrocities of the Vietnam War.
July 13th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
In my last article I used a quote which was so similar to many of those who have shared their stories with me…
July 13th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
The battle over Agent Orange and those inflicted with illness seems to be never ending. Dealing with veterans has been the issue but what about the civilian USO tour personnel and civilian non-military contractors. Where do they turn to for help?
July 11th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Benefits,Health,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs,Vietnam War | Read More »
Let us get back to the Agent Orange problem and the plight of many veterans.
July 8th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health,Medical Disability Benefits | Read More »
It is hard to imagine that the global effect of Agent Orange will ever simply fade away. The ramifications I have been writing about along with thousands of others, makes me think it might well carry-on into the next century.
July 5th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
The never-ending issue of Agent Orange comes home to roost, intruding on the lives and communities here in the United States.
July 1st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
The Viet Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) yesterday called on people across the country and international friends to further support Agent Orange victims in their daily lives and fight for justice.
June 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
After their product Agent Orange has crippled millions of lives in Vietnam from the Vietnam War and onward, the US producers have continued to avoid taking responsibility and blame it on the US government instead.
June 20th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
VIETNAM is kicking off the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage from the chemical Agent Orange.
June 17th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
Blue Water Veterans must have actually stepped foot on the land of Vietnam or served on its inland waterways anytime between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975 to be presumed to have been exposed to herbicides when claiming service-connection for diseases associated with Agent Orange exposure.
June 16th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
On 10th August 1961 an event began that was to last for ten-years, and would leave a tragedy that has yet to find an end. Fifty years on, the Vietnamese people and their many friends around the world will be commemorating this special anniversary.
June 14th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
The lethal defoliant Agent Orange was kept also at Camp Market, a depot of the U.S. Forces Korea in Bupyeong, Incheon, during the late 1960s, according to U.S. veterans.
June 8th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
This article reviews Australian and overseas studies on the physical health effects of Vietnam service. by Dr. Eileen J. Wilson
June 7th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
A prominent activist has called on President Barack Obama to redress the deadly legacies of Agent Orange, fifty years after the US first sprayed the toxic defoliant over South Vietnam.
June 4th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
It is noteworthy that our most active contributors in the area of Monsanto and Agent Orange live in places other than the United States like the UK and Vietnam.
June 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
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