Legacies: Agent Orange

Citizen Soldier’s Agent Orange Archives

Shared by Vietnam veteran Michael Uhl, with this introduction: In early 1978, Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit dedicated to advocacy on behalf of GIs and veterans, became involved in the controversial Agent Orange issue when a range of negative health effects began being...

Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts

October 4, 2019

Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty. PHOTO: Many Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange wind up being cared for in orphanages. The kids in this photo...

Ending War, American-Style

September 13, 2019

This Tomgram posted by Andrew Bacevitch on September 10, 2019, with introduction by Nick Turse, speaks to the moral bankruptcy of the United States in regards to its historic and ongoing reckless...

Live from Spokane: Battling the Viet Nam war from the inside

August 25, 2019

Spokane Public Radio's Doug Nadvornick hosted the Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Inland Journal program featuring interviews...

Viet Nam: One Man’s Atonement in an Ocean of Grief

August 25, 2019

The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries...

Media coverage of Agent Orange widens its scope

August 5, 2019

In Public Radio International's The World broadcast of July 24, 2019, host Marco Werman interviews Susan Hammond with...

Agent Orange barrels found in Oregon Lake

June 23, 2019

What the heck?! Agent Orange barrels found at the bottom of Wallowa Lake in Eastern Oregon? The story is ongoing......

Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy

May 18, 2019

This post originally appeared at www.e360.yale.edu. From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of...

Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam

May 18, 2019

This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM...

Vietnam honours US woman for Agent Orange relief work

April 18, 2019

Hanoi (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga on April 16 presented the Friendship Order, a notable distinction of the Vietnamese State, to Executive Director of the War Legacies Project (WLP) Susan Marie Hammond.

Patrick Leahy: War legacies and the expanding U.S.-Vietnam partnership

April 17, 2019

When I became a senator for Vermont in 1975, one of the first votes I cast was for a law to stop funding the war in Vietnam. That law passed by one vote…. Words cannot adequately describe the magnitude of the catastrophe of that war for the people of both countries.