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Sunset leaders have agreed to host a memorial honoring Vietnam War victims of Agent Orange, an initiative pushed by a ...
Stories involving Agent Orange and similar toxic herbicides used during the Vietnam War tend to be somewhat somber in nature.
Cory Ahonen, the assistant secretary in the Executive Office of Veterans Services joined Senator John Velis and ...
In honor of Agent Orange Awareness Day, a local veteran and a soldier’s daughter detail decades of health struggles and ...
Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and ...
Sunset’s Veterans Park has been chosen as the site for a new memorial marker, the culmination of a Davis County nonprofit’s ...
Millions of gallons of herbicide Agent Orange was sprayed by the U.S. military on trees and other vegetation during the Vietnam War era, and has been linked to various health effects since.
Sprayed across Vietnam to strip the jungle bare, Agent Orange left a legacy of sickness, birth defects, and environmental devastation that continues decades later.
Agent Orange Awareness Day, recognized every year on Aug. 10, is a crucial moment to raise public consciousness about this ...
Retired Maj. George Davis flew aircraft out of Da Nang Airbase during the Vietnam War. One hundred yards down the runway is where they loaded Agent Orange onto C-123 aircraft. “That was the most ...
Agent Orange has remained a thorny topic between the former enemies despite strong recent partnerships in areas ranging from economic to military. Next month, the U.S. and Vietnam will celebrate ...
And in the late '70s a group of vets filed suit against the U.S. manufacturers of Agent Orange and settled out of court, in 1984, I think, for about $180 million.