Fri. December 05, 2008
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Democracy Now
December 5, 2008
I'd like to ask you to respond to that and also to what the military did, if they were informed by
KBR, of the existence of this problem. ...
Newsday
December 5, 2008
Akin to the policy for
Vietnam veterans with
agent orange exposure, this would curtail the application timeline for the most vulnerable claimants. ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 5, 2008
Therefore, we're appalled at the classification of the Air Force report on the burn pit at
Balad Air Base ("Military mum on dirty air in
Iraq," Tribune, ...
Boston Globe
December 4, 2008
"Veterans Affairs is still analyzing the effects of
agent orange," Hyams said, referring to the defoliant used in the
Vietnam War. ...
Daily Press
December 1, 2008
What the report also exposes is the cynicism and denial of the
US war establishment, which, as we all know, disputed the toxicity of
agent orange for 20 ...
Kingsport Times News
November 30, 2008
He likened the delay to the 20 years it took for the federal government to acknowledge the ill health effects of
agent orange on
Vietnam War veterans. ...
Appeal-Democrat
November 30, 2008
I want to thank all of you who turned out for this parade, cheering and clapping as each group of current and past military groups passed you by. ...
The Morning News
November 28, 2008
Marrs said he was being treated for
diabetes, a result of his exposure to
agent orange during the
Vietnam War. The doctor told him that Haines could help ...
OpEdNews
November 28, 2008
What the report also exposes is the cynicism and denial of the
US war establishment, which, as we all know, disputed the toxicity of
agent orange for 20 ...
Czech Happenings
November 27, 2008
The Czech experts will work on the former Phu Cat US air base where
agent orange was stored that the
US military used in
Vietnam during the war. ...
Deseret News
November 26, 2008
The report compared the foot-dragging and denials to the treatment of earlier troops who claimed that they had been dangerously exposed to agent orange and ...
AirForceTimes.com
November 26, 2008
AirForceTimes.com
November 25, 2008
Reuters
November 24, 2008
Court documents showed that TH
agriculture & Nutrition was one of several manufacturers that sold
agent orange to the
US military between 1965 and 1971. ...
Thanh Nien Daily
November 23, 2008
In your article, there is mention of a possible linkage to
agent orange/dioxin contamination. I, personally, have been involved in research in
Vietnam on ...
Thanh Nien Daily
November 23, 2008
The Czech Development Agency will provide US$1.8 million to help central Binh Dinh Province deal with the consequences of agent orange, an official from the ...
Palm Beach Post
November 22, 2008
And, of course, exposure to
agent orange did no long-term damage to
Vietnam troops. The government's first response is always to suggest that some veterans ...
Naples Daily News
November 22, 2008
"(The link) is strong enough that the military recognizes (agent orange) as a trigger factor and, for the most part, covers treatment and medications for ...
Mount Vernon Gazette
November 22, 2008
AirForceTimes.com
November 22, 2008
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
scientists studying dioxin exposure in humans - including
Vietnam veterans exposed to
agent orange - have found a ...
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
November 20, 2008
That resulted in the veterans receiving 100 percent disability for problems such as depression or
cancer due to
agent orange exposure during combat in ...
abc7news.com
November 18, 2008
Close to 400000 veterans are listed in the military's agent orange registry. According to researchers, about a third of them could be expected to develop ...
Toronto Star
November 18, 2008
Bren Keetch, 70, remembers being loaded into trucks with other recruits and taken from the Petawawa
military base to the Atomic Energy of
Canada Ltd. plant ...
Kansas City Star
November 18, 2008
The report compared the foot-dragging and denials to treatment of troops who claimed that they had been dangerously exposed to agent orange and other toxic ...
Austin American-Statesman
November 18, 2008
During the
Vietnam War, the
US military sprayed large amounts of a herbicide,
agent orange, across thousands of acres to clear them of vegetation and thus ...
RT
November 16, 2008
Almost 80 million litres of the poisonous herbicide was sprayed by the
US military during
the war in Vietnam. The aim was to destroy the jungle that ...
WPBF
November 15, 2008
As a
Vietnam veteran dealing with the aftermath of
agent orange and unable to work, he's facing a problem affecting many other disabled veterans. ...
Austin American-Statesman
November 15, 2008
A military honor guard was present, a bugler played "Taps," and a young soldier presented a
United States flag to my friend's wife "... with the thanks of a ...
Billings Gazette
November 14, 2008
Veteran Jim McDermand wrote the federal government more than six years ago about his exposure during the
Vietnam War to
agent orange, a powerful herbicide ...
AirForceTimes.com
November 13, 2008
Noting that it took
Vietnam veterans 20 years to gain benefits for exposure to the defoliant
agent orange, Baker said, "We don't want to see these guys have ...
Long Beach Herald
November 13, 2008
Rhenback said her father was sickened by
agent orange while serving in
Vietnam and died of
cancer four years ago. Last year she invited some of his fellow ...
Mail Tribune
November 12, 2008
The former seamen also loaded hundreds of 55-gallon barrels of the agent orange chemical defoliant onto helicopters. The chemical was later linked to health ...
Havelock News
November 12, 2008
He's dying of
cancer now from
agent orange," McQueen said. "He got the
navy Marine Corps Medal for saving me." That savior was Ernie Howe, a staff sergeant. ...
Wired News
November 12, 2008
After the war, he did research on soybean growth regulation that was later used to develop agent orange. Galston fought against the use of this toxic ...
Jamestown Post Journal
November 12, 2008
''And it wasn't until years later we learned about problems we might have with agent orange.'' agent orange was a defoliation agent sprayed by the military ...
News Sentinel
November 12, 2008
... and the orange ones recognized the victims of
agent orange, which was the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the
US military in ...
Long Beach Press-Telegram
November 12, 2008
Money from a class-action lawsuit for agent orange victims had run out long before, and now there is little or nothing to be achieved in the courts. ...
The Rolla Daily News
November 12, 2008
At noon, hundreds of orange
balloons were released by veterans, victims of
agent orange and
family members of victims who have died or otherwise suffered ...
Scarlet Scuttlebutt
November 12, 2008
Durko, a native of South Amboy, died in 2007 of an illness traced to exposure to
agent orange in Vietnam. He was so proud of his service that he led an ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard
November 11, 2008
Gloria Sellar, a campaigner who fought tirelessly to get compensation for Canadian
soldiers exposed to
agent orange after her own husband died of a rare ...
