Vietnam War's Legacy: Agent Orange Victims

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Reporter Christie Aschwanden reports from Hanoi for Pulitzer Center on initial meetings with victims of Agent Orange sprayed by U.S. military over Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s.

During the war, American forces sprayed nearly two million gallons of Agent Orange across Vietnam's forests in an attempt to steal cover from insurgent forces that lurked in the dense jungle. More than three decades after the Vietnam War ended, the Vietnamese people continue to live with the consequences of Agent Orange, a defoliant that has come to symbolize the unintended consequences of warfare.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Vietnam: War's Lasting Legacy" (http://bit.ly/tOO9hs).

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• Pulitzer Center
• Vietnam War Legacy
• Vietnam War
• Vietnam
• Agent Orange
• Agent Orange Effects
• Birth Defects
• Operation Ranch Hand
• Agent Orange Victims

[scones55555]

How do you know this was caused by agent orange, ? birth defects occur all over the world.

[coltzin12]

Christie, even though your father was obeying orders , that doesn't exempt him from being a war criminal.

[cjmyers505]

2017

Starvation change.

Cast off the chains.

[scones55555]

Communist Vietnam invaded Laos and Cambodian territory through the Ho Chi Minh trail , Pol Pots main backer was CHINA you really should learn your history.

[vtxtd2]

China/Vietnam still going strong. Still communist... You dare give me a date when they will die??? A:_________

[iwasbornin1963]

How about simpathy for American families, how they suffered losing a father or brother. The silence is deafing. This more communist propaganda from the enemy within.