Tag: Vietnam War (1955-1975)

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.

Panic is always a death sentence in these situations, and a little luck appreciated, although there usually is no time to pray for it.

New Zealand's Vietnam War veterans are confronting a deadly new danger, 36 years after the end of the war.

Since the Vietnam war military tactics have been transformed into something even more sinister and horrendous.

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.

NEW YORK, NY, March 15, 2011 – Hundreds of Vietnam War veterans and the family members of those killed in action in defense of our great nation will pay tribute to their collective sacrifices at a commemorative event on “Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day.”

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.

Toxicology expert Dr. Leonard Ritter will lead an independent panel that will investigate Ontario's use of the now-banned herbicide 2,4,5-T over three decades, the government announced Friday.

The Vietnam War is a sore spot in the memories of many American citizens. From 1955 to 1975, the United States found itself entrenched in a war of unrecognizable proportions. Due to the unprecedented tactical disadvantages faced by American soldiers, action had to be taken to level the playing field, ultimately crippling the guerrilla warfare tactics held by members of the Vietnamese military. The solution? Agent Orange, an herbicidal chemical extensively used to eradicate jungle flora throughout the Vietnamese countryside. Often used at levels upwards of 50 times the recommended usage, Agent Orange decimated fields and jungles alike.

Nearly two decades before the Linfield College students were even born, the Vietnam War had ended, closing a wrenching chapter of American history as distant from their reality as the draft.

On February 23, 2011, Joe Sobran, a prominent American journalist, syndicated columnist, and writer, would have turned 65. He did not live to see this day. He died on September 30, 2010. Below is my eulogy that originally appeared on the site of FGF last November.

Bullet riddled planes are returning to base at an alarming rate. Until now the planes have returned without incident but whatever is happening out there it seems to be heating up. I’ve also been talking to guys that are flying the gunships and they too are catching more ground fire. Some of the Marines are leaving and the Vietnamese Army is starting to take over some of the guard post positions. Is it possible that the war is drawing to a close? But how could that be when our planes are taking more ground fire? I’m getting more confused about the war as well as my participation in it.

Veterans for Peace Besiege Obama’s White House Winter Soldiers The first Washington snow of the season kept falling as Daniel Ellsberg, of the Pentagon papers fame,...

What do chickens, goats and a Caribou have in common? The chickens and goats were my traveling companions and Caribou was our ride to...

As the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA) made significant steps last year in improving the ludicrous regulations for veterans obtaining disability...

Fayetteville's 10-day tribute to Vietnam veterans this fall should portray a complete picture of the era and its impact on the city - including...

 A message from Our Vietnam Generation Dear Vietnam Veterans, Well they said it couldn't be done, they said it would never be supported, they told me...

The Welcome Home 2011 has been designated to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the most historic event that Vietnam veterans and the City of...

Few who served during Vietnam ever complained of a generation gap. The men who fought World War II were their heroes and role models. By...

The Republican Party has it knives out and is casting its eyes with a lean and hungry look on 'Quite Extreme' Veterans Health Benefits. "My...

- Update: See VA defends Agent Orange, heart disease links against Sen Webb.  WATCH LIVE as we hope VA Secretary Shinseki tells the bureaucrats Senators Webb...

- Veterans for Common Sense thanks VA Secretary Shinseki for moving forward with presumptives for Vietnam War veterans - Via Veterans for Common Sense  Veterans for Common...

The 16 U.S. airmen of the 1st Combat Evaluation Group were stationed atop a 5,600-foot mountain that towered above the Laotian jungle. Before daybreak on March 11, 1968, the first rocket dropped. Then grenades were hurled and gunshots came whizzing by. North Vietnamese soldiers had infiltrated the Air Force's secret “Lima Site 85” – and few Americans would leave alive.

- Hearing Thursday (September 23) United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Oversight Hearing:  VA Disability Compensation:  Presumptive Disability Decision-Making. VA Secretary Shinseki should publicly blast...

It's not war that is costly, about which lawmakers have no reservations about spending. No, it's those damn veterans who should go away or at least die.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE VIETNAM WAR (DRAFT) WAR PROTESTORS GONE? By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER VT Where have all the Vietnam War (DRAFT) protestors...

- What's frustrating, Vietnam veteran Frank Tate said, is that the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn't acknowledge cirrhosis as a disease caused by Agent Orange....

By Pauline Jelinek And Robert Burns WASHINGTON – More than 30 years after his death, an Air Force general has been exonerated of charges that...

- President Obama: “Whether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our responsibility to deliver the benefits and care that...

George Will writes of Afghanistan that "America's longest war is entering a surreal stage." Have we forgotten the Vietnam War already? That 20-year police action? Joe...

Agent Orange and related toxic chemicals are nothing but bad--decades after use. Sens. Webb and Akaka, are you listening? Action plan addresses toxic legacy of...

What the United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings would like is for countries that employ surprise drone attacks to first...

Memorial Day weekend is upon us. Look back here over the weekend for contributions honoring those who have fallen. - Army Times reports that thirty...

Madison, Wisconsin—The Vietnam War veterans were betrayed. That's not the official slogan of the welcome-home Vietnam War veterans event to held be May 21-23 at Lambeau Field...

Walter J. Hickel, twice Alaska's governor and an Interior secretary fired by President Richard Nixon after objecting to the treatment of Vietnam War protesters, died Friday. He was 90. Hickel died of natural causes at Horizon House, an assisted living facility in Anchorage, according to longtime Hickel assistant Malcolm Roberts. Hickel was dismissed from his Interior post in late 1970, several months after he wrote Nixon a letter critical of the president's handling of student protests following the National Guard shootings at Kent State and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.

Spirited debate about the Vietnam War and its legacy lives on at Kent State University. War veteran and anti-war activist Country Joe McDonald screened two short documentary-style films about the war's impact at a gathering Sunday. The reaction to the movies at Kent State -- where the impact of that war may have been felt more than anywhere else -- was divided and passionate.

Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Operation Babylift Held at the Vietnam Era Educational Center Saturday, April 24, 2010 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Edward Freeman died almost two years ago. Freeman was a former Army helicopter pilot who received the Medal of Honor for his heroics during the Vietnam War. He was portrayed...

Marines to honor author of classic 'When Hell Was in Session' By Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton The Marines know a true member of the warrior class when...

Inspiring true Vietnam story honored by military website By Richard Botkin Everything Americans know about the end of the Vietnam War is wrong, contends Richard Botkin,...

Earlier in the day, I went to S-21 at Tuol Sleng, the former high school that was turned into a prison and death camp by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970’s. Of the some 17,000 prisoners that passed through the S-21, only a handful survived. It is now part of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Raksmey, one of the drivers who sleeps in his motoremorque, drove me out there early in the morning.

Gordon Duff, VT senior editor explores lying about the Vietnam War as a way of life. When some of those who "served" in Vietnam became old enough to gain power, hiding much of the truth of the war was critical to keep questions down. Everything bad in Vietnam was blamed on minorities, "bad eggs" and draftees. This is total hogwash. Vietnam was our most corrupt war in history with a Mafia within our military stealing, not millions, but billions in food, weapons, uniforms, supplies of every kind, often leaving troops in the field without food, weapons, medicine and supplies.