Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance

Quang Tri: Big bomb in residential area safely handled

PeaceTrees Vietnam successfully handled and transported a MK82 bomb weighing 227kg left from the war in the central province of Quang Tri.

VFP 160 helps renovate Quang Tri Blind Center, provides bikes

April 29, 2021

US veterans gave bicycles to children affected by floods and funded new kitchen and bathrooms at the Quang Tri province’s Blind Center.

4,000 UXOs found buried in Cambodian pagoda

March 28, 2021

Cambodian Mine Action Centre removed 4,000 anti-aircraft shells which were found buried inside a Buddhist pagoda in Battambang province.

War-ravaged Vietnamese province receives $10 mil from Norway for mine clearance

April 19, 2018

CAPTION: Unexploded ordnance are found in Vietnam's central province of Quang Tri. Photo by VnExpress/Quang Ha This...

REMARKS at Spring Action 2018 for VFP

April 15, 2018

13 April 2018 Peace be with you. I am the Reverend James Swarts, President of the Rochester chapter of Veterans For...

Ghosts of war: My journalist father’s Vietnam odyssey, revisited

April 2, 2018

'I was always envious of Dad,' Globe foreign correspondent Eric Reguly writes of his father, Robert, shown here in...

Congress Approves $30 Million for UXO Sector in Laos for FY2018

April 1, 2018

This press release originally appeared at legaciesofwar.org. Congress has allocated $30 million to the unexploded...

The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.

March 20, 2018

Photo: A man who was injured in 2011, while digging for metal to sell, by a bomb that had been dropped by American...

In Vietnam, war still right beneath surface

September 8, 2017

This article originally appeared at USAToday.com. By Tom Mareseca. (Photo: Thomas Maresca, Special for USA TODAY) DONG...

Fitting a Child Soldier with Artificial Limbs

September 6, 2017

This article originally appeared at CivilianPublicService.org. -by Roger Marshall, Prosthetist, Quaker Rehabilitation...

The Legacy of Agent Orange

August 25, 2017

Producer/Director: Gloria Messer. Producer/Host: Heather Wokusch. An original series on the Manhattan Neighborhood...

Vietnam vets helping to remove deadly landmines from country, decades after war

August 21, 2017

This article originally appeared at m.wtol.com. By Lou Hebert, Mark Bickle. TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - It's been over 42...

US army veteran returns to Viet Nam to heal scars

August 15, 2017

Việt Nam News reporter Hoàng Anh talks to Chuck Searcy, Vice President of Project RENEW and Co-chair of the Agent...

Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts

March 11, 2017

This article originally appeared at TheSidneyMorningHerald.com.au By Lindsay Murdoch Half a century after United...

Project Renew: Ridding Vietnam of Unexploded Ordnance

February 20, 2017

This article originally appeared at vvaveteran.org. BY CHUCK SEARCY For most Americans, the Vietnam War ended in 1975....