August 10th of each year is Agent Orange Awareness Day. It is a day to provide awareness and information about the effects of Agent Orange on our servicemen and women who served in Vietnam. On the ...

Veterans Day should be both a time for Americans to honor the sacrifices made on their behalf and to recognize the true cost of war and its effects on service men and women.

Despite numerous health problems caused by exposure to Agent Orange (a powerful herbicide mixture used by the U.S. military ...

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 ...

One of the U.S. military’s many challenges in the Vietnam War was fighting through a seemingly endless jungle that the enemy knew better than Americans ever could. Its solution was Operation Ranch ...

Many of the 2.6 million US soldiers who served in the Vietnam War have contracted cancer and a cocktail of serious health problems that they believe to be directly linked to their exposure to the ...

According to the federal government, an estimated 300,000 Vietnam veterans have died from the dangers of Agent Orange. The defoliant was heavily used during the conflict. Now, there is a new ...

JESSUP – As a 19-year-old from Jessup hiking through Vietnamese jungles, Russell Canevari ignored the Agent Orange coating the landscape. His focus was survival. “We really didn’t take it seriously,” ...

Vietnamese people are celebrating the unification of their country after the Vietnam war that left people and land alike deeply scarred - and divided. Some veterans and activists from the United ...

This lonely section of the abandoned Danang air base was once crawling with U.S. airmen and machines. It was here where giant orange drums were stored and the herbicides they contained were mixed and ...

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 ...