Ghosts of war: My journalist father’s Vietnam odyssey, revisited
'I was always envious of Dad,' Globe foreign correspondent Eric Reguly writes of his father, Robert, shown here in South Vietnam in 1967, wearing U.S. Army fatigues he bought shortly after arriving in the country as a...
Congress Approves $30 Million for UXO Sector in Laos for FY2018
This press release originally appeared at legaciesofwar.org. Congress has allocated $30 million to the unexploded ordnance (UXO) sector in Laos for fiscal year 2018, fulfilling a multi-year pledge made in 2016 totaling...
The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.
Photo: A man who was injured in 2011, while digging for metal to sell, by a bomb that had been dropped by American planes during the Vietnam War. Jorge Silva/Reuters. Dear all - This is an academic list serve, not a...
Vietnam: The Chemical War
This article originally appeared at thenewyorktimes.com. By David Biggs. Just before dawn on Nov. 18, 1967, the men of the Army’s 266th Chemical Platoon awoke to reveille and assembled in formation. The platoon was...
The Vietnam War Is Not History For Victims Of Agent Orange
This article originally appeared at huffpost.com. The actions of the U.S. government and the U.S. manufacturers of Agent Orange and other deadly herbicides is a moral outrage. By Marjorie Cohn and Jonathan Moore Watching...
The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange
This article originally appeared at the newyorktimes.com. By Viet Thanh Nguyen and Richard Hughes. Phan Thanh Hung Duc, 20, lies immobile and silent, his midsection covered haphazardly by a white shirt with an...
In Vietnam, war still right beneath surface
This article originally appeared at USAToday.com. By Tom Mareseca. (Photo: Thomas Maresca, Special for USA TODAY) DONG HA, Vietnam — While the war has become a distant memory in many parts of Vietnam, lethal reminders...
Fitting a Child Soldier with Artificial Limbs
This article originally appeared at CivilianPublicService.org. -by Roger Marshall, Prosthetist, Quaker Rehabilitation Center, Vietnam, 1969 Anyone who spends, say, more than a year in Vietnam runs into the ...
The Legacy of Agent Orange
Producer/Director: Gloria Messer. Producer/Host: Heather Wokusch. An original series on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Heather Wokusch interviews Susan Schnall Co-coordinator of Vietnam Agent Orange Relief...
Vietnam vets helping to remove deadly landmines from country, decades after war
This article originally appeared at m.wtol.com. By Lou Hebert, Mark Bickle. TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - It's been over 42 years since the war in Vietnam flashed across our TV screens every night. These days not so much, but that...
US army veteran returns to Viet Nam to heal scars
Việt Nam News reporter Hoàng Anh talks to Chuck Searcy, Vice President of Project RENEW and Co-chair of the Agent Orange Working Group. When did you come to Việt Nam and what motivated your decision? The first time I...
Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts
This article originally appeared at TheSidneyMorningHerald.com.au By Lindsay Murdoch Half a century after United States B-52 bombers dropped more than 500,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia's countryside Washington...
Project Renew: Ridding Vietnam of Unexploded Ordnance
This article originally appeared at vvaveteran.org. BY CHUCK SEARCY For most Americans, the Vietnam War ended in 1975. But for too many Vietnamese, the war didn’t end then. They continued to suffer death, injury, and...
The Children of Agent Orange
This article also appeared at ProPublica.org and TheVirginia-Pilot.com. By Charles Ornstein and Hannah Fresques, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot. For decades, Vietnam veterans have suspected that...
THE SECRET WAR THAT TRANSFORMED THE CIA
This review originally appeared at WarOnTheRocks.com. By Arnold R. Isaacs Joshua Kurlantzick, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Simon & Schuster, 2017) If you work at it,...
Bomb database useful for past, present wars
This article originally appeared at the BostonGlobe.com, Photo credit: MEG MCKINNEY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE By Bryan Bender GLOBE STAFF MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant...
Chris Hedges: Vietnam War, Like the Later Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Was ‘One Long Atrocity’
This video originally appeared at TruthDig.com In the latest episode of “On Contact,” Chris Hedges and Nick Turse, author of “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam,” discuss how American wars of...
Grassroots Campaign Has Made Cluster Bombs Unprofitable
This article originally appeared at peaceblog.wordpress.com BY Gabe Murphy On Tuesday, Textron — the last U.S. weapons company making cluster bombs, a deadly indiscriminate weapon that’s made headlines in the past year...
What 80 million unexploded US bombs did to Laos
Photo: Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty Images This article appeared at kxly.com Author: By Rebecca Wright CNN XIENG KHOUNG, Laos (CNN) - For two years after the accident, Yei Yang refused to leave his home. "I couldn't...
“Millions of People in Laos Still Live in Fear” as Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clean Up U.S. Bombs
This article originally appeared at DemocracyNow.org As President Obama becomes the first American president to visit Laos, we look at the legacy of the U.S. bombing campaign there during the war on Vietnam. The...
Decades on, millions of unexploded American bombs left behind still kill and maim in Laos
This article originally appeared at pbs.org The United States dropped 270 million bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973. On Tuesday, President Obama became the first U.S. president to visit the country, promising...
Exhibition commemorates 55th anniversary of AO catastrophe in Vietnam
This article originally appeared at www.dtinews.vn By Nhan Dan An exhibition themed ‘Agent Orange (AO) – Sense and Justice’ opened at the Vietnam Military History Museum on August 3, as a part of activities to...
Underwater U.S. Navy Shell Is Dragged From Ben Hai River And Destroyed At RENEW’s Demolition Site
This article originally published at landmines.org/vn Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (1 July 2016) – It has become a weekly routine. On Thursday RENEW teams conducted another controlled demolition of unexploded ordnance at the...
Two Men, Two Legs and Too Much Suffering: The Forgotten Vietnamese Victims
This article appeared at Portside.org Photo: Raymond Depardon By: Nick Turse TomDispatch He was short in stature, elderly, frail, and couldn't hear particularly well, but what struck me most were his eyes. They...
Making Amends by Daniel Malloy
This article originally appeared at www.myajc.com Story and photos (except where indicated) by Daniel Malloy For the Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 29, 2016 War veteran returns to Vietnam to help clean up the mess left...
Teaching Kids In Vietnam To Avoid A Deadly, Everyday Legacy Of War
This article originally appeared at npr.org By Michael Sullivan It's 9 a.m. in central Vietnam's Quang Tri province, and several dozen grade-schoolers sit cross-legged on the floor as their teacher holds up pictures,...
RENEW Team Continues Safe Demolition Of Cluster Bombs In Quang Tri, Days After Team Leader Was Killed At The Same Site
This article originally appeared at landminds.org.vn Hai Lang, Quang Tri (23 May 2015) – A total of 16 items of unexploded ordnance were safely destroyed today by an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from Project...
THE VIETNAM WAR IS STILL KILLING PEOPLE By George Black
This article originally appeared at the NewYorker.com. On Saturday, President Obama will set out on a trip to Vietnam, for a visit that’s being billed as looking forward to the future rather than back at the bitter...
RENEW Deminer Dies From Injuries After Cluster Bomb Accident
This article originally appeared at Landmines.org/vn A cluster bomb explosion in Quang Tri Province has killed one deminer and injured another, both technical staff managed by Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid...
Photo Essay: Agent Orange Children Vietnam 2016 by Mike Hastie
Full Disclosure My father was a career Army officer, and World War II combat veteran. I spent my early youth on military bases in the United States, to include Japan and Germany. I absolutely loved my country, until I...
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