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The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated.
Waterbury native Tony Monteiro, at Anthony's Barber & Style Shop for 55 years, spent 14 months as a medic for the U.S. Army ...
A Connecticut man came home from Vietnam with lasting physical and mental scars. Now, 50 years later, he's still dealing with ...
Between 1961 and 1971, the US military sprayed over 72 million litres of herbicides in Vietnam, including more than 45 million litres of Agent Orange, contaminated with toxic dioxin. Today, over three ...
Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies.
Now, millions in Vietnam are worried that the U.S. may abandon Agent Orange clean up as President ... and U.S. cavalrymen during patrol through jungle 40 miles northeast of Saigon on June 5 ...
inches through the thick jungle from their base camp after ... of causality is still incomplete,” said Bailey. Vietnam identifies Agent Orange victims by checking family history, where they ...
FILE- Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage ...
U.S. soldiers were killed on the ground in Vietnam, but many of those who returned home had another battle to fight with the ...
John Callahan figured that if he died in Vietnam, it would at least ... coded bands on the containers to strip the jungle vegetation. Agent Orange was the most commonly used of the herbicides ...
inches through the thick jungle from their base camp after ... with other students at a school for victims of Agent Orange in Da Nang, Vietnam, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Aniruddha Ghosal) A boy ...