Update: Agent Orange’s Toxic Trail
January 28th, 2013
By Jan Barry In the seaside city of Da Nang, Vietnam, a clean-up is underway to remove dioxin-contaminated soil at a former U.S. military air base. Some 8,500 miles to the east, another clean-up is underway to remove dioxin hot spots along the Passaic River in Newark, NJ and upstream, where tides and floods have […]
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Tags: Agent Orange, birth defects, clean-up, illness, U.S., veterans, Vietnam
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Agent Orange’s Toxic Legacy Hits Home
January 13th, 2011
By Jan Barry Retired Master Sergeant LeRoy Foster is haunted by the job that launched his 20-year career in the US Air Force—spraying herbicides along perimeter fences and fuel pipelines at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. This duty seemed inconsequential, field maintenance work done amid B-52 bombers thundering in and out to refuel for […]
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Tags: Agent Orange, birth defects, contamination, disease, Guam, VA, veterans
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