From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 22 Nov 2006 00:13:36 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Vietnam's Agent Orange legacy |
Chemical's legacy of suffering MANY SAY U.S. SHOULD HELP VICTIMS OF WARTIME POISON By K. Oanh Ha San Jose Mercury News (CA) November 21, 2006 HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Dang Hong Nhut smiles broadly when she speaks about her firstborn, a son she describes as tall and handsome, born before American combat in Vietnam intensified. Her face wrinkles up in revulsion when conversation turns to her other child, who died years ago in her womb three months before full term. "The body was very deformed," the 70-year-old said in a hushed voice. "I was scared to look at it. It was not natural." Dang and medical authorities here say she and the stillborn child, stored in a jar of formaldehyde at a local hospital, are the victims of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide American troops sprayed during the Vietnam War to defoliate jungles and root out communist Viet Cong fighters. Thirty-one years after the end of the war in Vietnam, the chemical warfare unleashed by the United States still maims. It's one of the last remaining legacies of the war that President Bush was pressed to address during his recent visit to Vietnam. In a broad joint statement of the two countries issued over the weekend, the presidents agreed that combined efforts by both countries to deal with environmental contamination at former U.S. military bases where the toxin was stored would help to deepen the relationship. ... For the entire article, see http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/16065189.htm --
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