The latest and final in a series of congressionally mandated biennial reviews of the evidence of health problems that may be linked to exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the ...
A girl who has health problems because of exposure to Agent Orange practices sewing at a special school In Da Nang, Vietnam, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Aniruddha Ghosal) DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The ...
Sick Vietnam War sailors seeking federal disability benefits due to exposure to Agent Orange hit two familiar roadblocks Wednesday – congressional worries over the cost and a reluctant U.S. Department ...
Decades after the fall of Saigon, millions are still dealing with the legacy of the Vietnam War. The chemical ghost of Agent Orange, a potent herbicide used by US forces, haunts generations, leaving a ...
DA NANG, Vietnam -- The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...
John Callahan figured that if he died in Vietnam, it would at least be in heroic fashion while fighting for his country. Callahan, a Hartford native, enlisted two weeks before his 17th birthday and ...
FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in ...
Milton Ross leaned forward to let the white rain run off his helmet. The helicopter had just sprayed the area near Pleiku, where Ross was part of a 22-man special forces team on a long-range ...
Memorial Day has special meaning for Mary Pohl. The holiday remembers the men and women who died while serving in the military. But Mary, 61, of Muhlenberg Township will tell you that not all those ...
TALLAHASSEE — Florida inmate Anthony Wainwright has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to halt his scheduled execution Tuesday, with an attorney arguing that Wainwright’s exposure to Agent Orange ...
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 hiding ...