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Agent Orange Continues To Poison New Generations In Vietnam

Agent Orange Continues To Poison New Generations In Vietnam

Published on 16 Dec 2009 at 8:02am

By Martha Ann Overland | TIME

DA NANG, VIETNAM – This lonely section of the abandoned Da Nang airbase was once crawling with U.S. airmen and machines.

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U.S. Officer Revisits His Past In Vietnam

U.S. Officer Revisits His Past In Vietnam

Published on 09 Nov 2009 at 2:30pm

By Seth Mydans | New York Times

DA NANG, VIETNAM – Cmdr. H. B. Le, the first Vietnamese-American to command a United States Navy destroyer, had just stepped ashore on a formal port call, making an emotional return to Vietnam for the first time since he fled as a young boy on a fishing boat at the end of the war in 1975.

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Vietnam Vets Rally Against Jane Fonda Where She Makes Return To Broadway

Vietnam Vets Rally Against Jane Fonda Where She Makes Return To Broadway

Published on 21 Feb 2009 at 11:54am

By Veronika Belenkaya | New York Daily News

Vietnam war veterans protest outside of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre against Jane Fonda for her views on the Vietnam War.

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Of Pirates And Freedom

Of Pirates And Freedom

Published on 21 Feb 2009 at 8:36am

By Becky Coffey | The Day

OLD SAYBROOK, CONNECTICUT – Thirty years later, Vu Nguyen of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, admits he still awakes some nights from a nightmare, reliving events from his life during the war and from his harrowing escape from his family farm outside Saigon to a freedom and a new life in the west in 1978.

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