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This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the US War on Vietnam, and the United States government continues to bear responsibility for cleaning up the ravages of war imposed on the ...
Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies.
A Davis County nonprofit seeks to create a memorial for Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, a chemical ...
DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...
It’s been 50 years since the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War – perhaps one of the most controversial wars fought in American history. The United States, and some historians, continue to ...
When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast ...
Agent Orange, sprayed over millions of acres of Vietnam, contained dioxin ‒ a chemical linked to cancer, birth defects and long-term ecological devastation. Dioxin is still poisoning people and ...
“It’s a defoliant and there’s so much jungle and you can’t see ten feet in front of you… They would spray the jungle with the Agent Orange,” Cable said. “It just killed the trees- al ...
Cleaning up Agent Orange is expensive and often dangerous. Heavily polluted soil needs to be unearthed and heated in large ...