Seven Steps to Find Out If You Qualify for Agent Orange Benefits 1. Determine if you or your family member served in a location that was exposed to Agent Orange. a.

Named for the orange stripes on the barrels it came in, the Veteran's Administration says Agent Orange's effects have killed more than 300,000 veterans since the end of the war. To put that into ...

And with the suspension of aid for Agent Orange victims, along with efforts to find and identify Vietnam’s missing war dead, Mr. Trump has essentially stalled 30 years of progress in bringing ...

Decades after the war, researchers began to piece together the long-term health impacts. Veterans exposed to Agent Orange ...

Sunset leaders have agreed to host a memorial honoring Vietnam War victims of Agent Orange, an initiative pushed by a ...

Keith Smith’s wish was to help other Vietnam veterans affected by Agent Orange. The Independence native served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam until July 1, 1970. He returned to Iowa ...

There are perhaps 15 other memorials around the country to Agent Orange victims, Kerr said, all of them smaller than what he envisions. “The ones that I’ve seen online are the size of a ...

There’s a whole host of cancers.” The dioxin TCDD is a byproduct of Agent Orange, and there’s no treatment to get rid of it in the body. “TCDD tends to accumulate in fat.

Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million gallons of the chemical agent dioxin used in Agent Orange across large swaths of southern Vietnam.

And yet, the US government has never paid compensation to the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Not one cent. While US ...

Sandra Auger, an Irondequoit woman who lost her husband to Agent Orange exposure from the Vietnam War, was awarded $370,000 from the Veterans Administration during a press conference Tuesday, Sept ...

The widows of two Rochester veterans who died due to health complications after exposure Agent Orange herbicide mix attended a ceremony honoring service members. Debi Neville, whose husband Andrew ...