Tag: Agent Orange

Former U.S. Army Captain Phil Steward provided testimony to the Korean National Assembly on Monday, August 1st, on the U.S. Army's use of herbicdes in Korea during 1968-1969, according to a news story in The Chosunilbo and confirmed in an email from Steward to me today.

There has been misinformation spread by the media that all files for compensation for Agent Orange related presumptive illnesses must be filed by August 30th, 2011. UNTRUE and FALSE!

If 'justice for all' were more than misty sentiment appended to a perfunctory 'pledge of allegiance,' H.R. 2634 — a bill seeking broad and long delayed remedial action on behalf of all Vietnam Era victims of Agent Orange — would sail through Congress and gain swift approval from the President.

Many U.S. soldiers who served in Korea in the 1960s and 70s sprayed the lethal defoliant Agent Orange throughout Korea, a former U.S. Army captain told a National Assembly hearing on Monday.

Using such modern tools as ground-penetrating radar and conducting analyses of water and soil core samples, a team of investigators in South Korea is searching for clues to a decades-old mystery:

The use of Agent Orange could be considered by many as a war crime and perpetuated by our unwillingness to solve the toxicity problem

Biodefense facilities in Fort Detrick, Maryland have nearby residents rightfully concerned about a host of diseases many believe are related to Army activities that include Agent Orange testing during the Vietnam War. Most recently, a possible cancer cluster has been the subject an intense investigation.

Getting to the facts on Agent Orange.

We still find it difficult to completely forget one of the uglier and far-reaching atrocities of the Vietnam War.

The battle over Agent Orange and those inflicted with illness seems to be never ending. Dealing with veterans has been the issue but what about the civilian USO tour personnel and civilian non-military contractors. Where do they turn to for help?

Let us get back to the Agent Orange problem and the plight of many veterans.

The never-ending issue of Agent Orange comes home to roost, intruding on the lives and communities here in the United States.

Fighting for Agent Orange benefits is almost as difficult as fight the Vietnam War for our brown water and blue water Navy personnel.

Blue Water Veterans must have actually stepped foot on the land of Vietnam or served on its inland waterways anytime between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975 to be presumed to have been exposed to herbicides when claiming service-connection for diseases associated with Agent Orange exposure.

Korean War and Vietnam War veteran totally disabled. Daughter completes successful VA claim on the first try.

The lethal defoliant Agent Orange was kept also at Camp Market, a depot of the U.S. Forces Korea in Bupyeong, Incheon, during the late 1960s, according to U.S. veterans.

This article reviews Australian and overseas studies on the physical health effects of Vietnam service. by Dr. Eileen J. Wilson

A prominent activist has called on President Barack Obama to redress the deadly legacies of Agent Orange, fifty years after the US first sprayed the toxic defoliant over South Vietnam.

A former South Korean soldier testified for the first time Monday that from its aircraft, the U.S. military sprayed a defoliant over the Demilitarized Zone in 1955 ― more than a decade earlier than news media recently reported.

Korea’s Environment Ministry said yesterday it plans to demand the United States verify a news report that the U.S. military buried leftover Agent Orange, a defoliant widely used during the Vietnam War, at one of its camps in Korea.

There appears to be a link between Agent Orange and kidney cancer in U.S. veterans exposed to the herbicide in Vietnam, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Shreveport, La. examined the records of 297 patients diagnosed with kidney cancer between 1987 and 2009.

The tracking of cancer in the aging population of Vietnam Veterans exposed to dioxin has been neglected.

Like the US Vets, the Vietnam people have suffered even more due to the effects of Agent Orange. What is sad is the continuing cover-up of AO by our Govt, Monsanto and Dow Chemical.

The US Ford Foundation and the Aspen Institute have committed to help Vietnam deal with the consequences of Agent Orange/dioxin.

URGENT AGENT ORANGE ACTION ALERT - DEADLINE IS TODAY! My apologies to Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), but we at VT received a request from...

A major row is brewing between Vietnam War veterans and the Australian War Memorial over the official written history of the conflict.

Veterans-For-Change would like to bring to the attention of Congress, POTUS and the general American Public the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day.

Its heartbreaking legacy - mental and physical retardation, dwarfism, cancers and deformities so severe the sufferers' features are often effaced - prompted Bruce Montgomery, a Tasmanian journalist and former staff writer on The Australian, to help victims and their families.

(VOV) - A seminar was held on April 8 in the southern Dong Nai province by the National Assembly (NA) Committee for Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin to review their activities in recent times.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday began reaching out to potential vendors to carry out its planned cleanup of ground contamination in Vietnam, according a contracting document that U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor has located. The environmental damage stemming from dioxin, which continues to linger long after the U.S. military’s departure from Vietnam in 1975, will cost millions of dollars over the next four years, the document says.

By Blue Water Navy Association The first legislation attempting to re-admit offshore participants of the Vietnam War back under their original coverage by...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont - Despite some confusion, the provincial Agent Orange probe will include both of its chemical ingredients and not just the one, a ministry of natural resources spokesman said Thursday.

For the past 16 years, Roy Mike Boehm, a US veteran quietly came to Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province to play violin to pray for the souls of the victims of the My Lai massacre. Roy Mike Boehm and his friends in the Madison Quakers have returned to Quang Ngai many times, wishing to heal the wounds of war in this land.

Although the American people have been involved in humanitarian work in Vietnam since before the American War, the last 35 years have presented great challenges to help alleviate poverty and the lasting effects of that war. Among the many successes and failures of this work, perhaps the most crucial challenge, and the most abiding result, is strengthening the bond between the people of these two nations.

The Ministry of National Defence has briefed foreign military attachés on the ministry’s efforts as well as its international and US cooperation in overcoming the aftermath of toxic chemicals left by US troops during the war in Vietnam.

A Review Of The Conditions and Benefits Linked to Agent Orange Exposure by Bob Kozel Click to Download PDF file

Niagara Falls residents who want to know if hydro workers sprayed Agent Orange on the city's power-line corridors will be able to get answers from the provincial panel when it releases its findings, said a Hydro One spokesman.

by Tim Parent, 610 CKTB News Niagara Falls will launch an investigation to determine if the chemical Agent Orange was used in the city. At...

(LOS ANGELES) - I live in soulful frustration along with stunned amazement at how this beautiful country of ours can ignore many hidden American civilians like myself. In 1970, while traveling with the USO as an innocent, 18-year old volunteer, I was repeatedly and unexpectedly exposed to Agent Orange (I have written about those times in alossofinnocence.com.)

Washington, D.C. – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Democratic Member Bob Filner (D-CA-51) announced the introduction of the Agent Orange Equity Act, H.R. 812, a bill that would restore equity to all Vietnam veterans that were exposed to Agent Orange.

im Hopkins was a Marine. He was born on the Marine Corps Birthday, November 10th. He was a Vietnam Veteran, who was suffering from exposure to the dioxin used to kill the foliage in Vietnam.

Many Veterans of the Vietnam War are now applying for benefits for presumption of service connected diseases related to their service being exposed to agent orange. This is due to the VA announcing on 3/9/2010 a aggressive initiative to solicit private sector input on a proposed fast track for Veterans claims for illnesses due to agent orange. At the time they expected 200,000 claims and a average of 90 days to process the claim.