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You are here: Home / Archives for Agent Orange

Childhood friends rally around Vietnam vet

July 20, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jane McKinley-Chinn Special to the Northwest Asian Weekly Ken Fugami, 73, is an Army Vietnam veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange, a toxic chemical used to defoliate forest areas that might conceal the enemy. After his military service, he developed narcolepsy, which he suspects was the result of Agent Orange. The condition gradually […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: Agent Orange, Ken Fugami, UW, VOL 35 NO 29 | JULY 16 – JULY 22, Vietnam vet

Shinseki had support of many vet groups until end

June 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – He’s one of them — a disabled veteran who lost part of his right foot to a mine in Vietnam, a soldier who riled his superiors in the Bush years by telling Congress the United States needed more troops in Iraq than the administration wanted. That bond is why […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Afghanistan, Agent Orange, Although Shinseki, Eric Shinseki, Hawaii-born Shinseki, Homer Townsend, Iraq, Japanese American, Paul Wolfowitz, President Barack Obama, Sloan Gibson, United States, VA, Veterans Affairs Department, Vietnam War, Vol 33 No 24 | June 7 - June 13

U.S. starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam

August 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The United States began a landmark project last week to clean up a dangerous chemical left from the defoliant Agent Orange — 50 years after American planes fi rst sprayed it on Vietnam’s jungles to destroy enemy cover …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Agent Orange, Ambassador David Shear, Bien Hoa, DANANG, Environmental Protection Agency, Nguyen Chi Vinh, Phu Cat, South China Sea, South Vietnam, United States, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, poverty, technology

Agent Orange studies overlook pain of Vietnamese Americans

November 5, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ngoc Nguyen New America Media A few years ago, my father, a former naval officer in the South Vietnamese Army, developed liver cancer. The diagnosis followed decades of struggle with hepatitis C, a viral infection he contracted through a blood transfusion during the war. A liver transplant saved his life.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, ARVN, Agent Orange, Agent Orange-related, Agent Orange-spraying, Arnold Schecter, Bien Hoa, Binh Duong, Census, Chicago Tribune, Columbia University, Jeanne Stellman, National Academy, New America Media, South Vietnamese Army, Subic Bay, United States, Veterans Affairs, Vietnamese Americans, Vol 30 No 45 | November 5 - November 11

Vietnam starts joint Agent Orange cleanup with U.S.

June 20, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Friday started the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage leftover from the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, a lasting legacy from the Vietnam War …

Filed Under: National News, World News Tagged With: 2009, Agent Orange, Bien Hoa, HANOI, Hatfield Consultants, International Development, Phu Cat, South Vietnam, State Hillary Clinton, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam Red Cross, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Virginia Palmer

Unique homecoming to Vietnam for U.S. commander

November 12, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Agent Orange, Blue Ridge, China Beach, Chinese, Colin Montgomerie, DANANG, Ho Chi Minh City, Hung Ba Le, Jeff Davis, North Vietnam, Paracel Islands, Philippines, South Vietnamese, Thong Ba Le, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 28 No 47 | November 14 - November 20

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