Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, President Trump’s gutting of foreign aid has halted American efforts to address a ...

Sen. Danny Burgess has filed legislation that would honor victims of Agent Orange, an herbicide used in the Vietnam War that ...

In 1991, Congress passed the Agent Orange Act, which requires the VA to assume all veterans who “served in the Republic of Vietnam” from 1962 to 1975 were exposed to Agent Orange. A few months later, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.

Emmett Bonner. It was cancer, possibly caused by the herbicide Agent Orange. Bonner had already served in World War II and the Korean War when he came to Vietnam. There, he commanded the USS ...

A plane spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam The Americans used chemical weapons Napalm (jellied petrol) and Agent Orange (superior strength weed killer). This was used to clear foliage in the ...