Ending the lingering threat of Agent Orange begins with awareness
This is the final part of the special report Unfinished Business: Suffering and sickness in the endless wake of Agent Orange. William A. Morris, Heather Bowser's father, wearing his uniform at basic...
View ArticleAgent Orange leaves behind a toxic footprint
By Plain Dealer Staff The United States began aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam in 1962 under Operation Hades, which was later renamed Operation Ranch Hand. The herbicides were color-coded with...
View ArticleVietnam War Chronology
In this May 1966 file photo, U.S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam. Photo: AP 1961: U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends the first...
View ArticleMushroom Farm gives women veterans exposed to Agent Orange a place, a...
Pham Thi Thuy, 60, holds her 8-year old grandson, Dinh Dai Son, at Ninh Binh, home toe more 200 former women soldiers of Truong Son who were exposed to Agent Orange. Behind her is Le Minh Dat, 10....
View ArticlePhotographs of the Friendship Village
Please specify a Flickr ID for this galleria By Nick Ut More than 100 children, from age 6 to 20 or so, live at Friendship Village for two to four years for medical treatment, rehabilitation and job...
View ArticleAgent Orange: A Terrible Legacy
By Catherine Karnow Award-winning photographer Catherine Karnow follows two families in Danang, Vietnam, as they cope with the multigenerational impact of Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War....
View ArticleThe Leaves Keep Falling
A film by Ed Kashi/Talking Eyes Media with photographs by Catherine Karnow During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed some 12 million gallons of Agent Orange herbicide over Vietnam. This...
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Laura Waxmann and Tara Haghighi traveled to Vietnam in summer 2010 as part of the Renaissance Journalism Center’s Vietnam Reporting Project. San Francisco State University Professor Yumi Wilson...
View ArticlePhotographs of Heather Bowser
William (Bill) Morris was drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. He sent this photograph to his wife Sharon in 1968. "He went to Vietnam thinking of it as an adventure," Sharon said. "Then reality set...
View ArticleVTimes Series on Agent Orange
During 2010, VTimes, a San Jose-based Vietnamese-language weekly, published a series of articles and columns about Agent Orange in Vietnam. Vietnam Reporting Project fellows Henry Liem and Duc Ha,...
View ArticleEnding the lingering threat of Agent Orange begins with awareness
This is the final part of the special report Unfinished Business: Suffering and sickness in the endless wake of Agent Orange. William A. Morris, Heather Bowser's father, wearing his uniform at basic...
View ArticleAgent Orange leaves behind a toxic footprint
By Plain Dealer Staff The United States began aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam in 1962 under Operation Hades, which was later renamed Operation Ranch Hand. The herbicides were color-coded with...
View ArticleVietnam War Chronology
In this May 1966 file photo, U.S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam. Photo: AP 1961: U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends the first...
View ArticleMushroom Farm gives women veterans exposed to Agent Orange a place, a...
Pham Thi Thuy, 60, holds her 8-year old grandson, Dinh Dai Son, at Ninh Binh, home toe more 200 former women soldiers of Truong Son who were exposed to Agent Orange. Behind her is Le Minh Dat, 10....
View ArticlePhotographs of the Friendship Village
By Nick Ut More than 100 children, from age 6 to 20 or so, live at Friendship Village for two to four years for medical treatment, rehabilitation and job training. At any given time, 40 or so war...
View ArticleStudent Projects
Laura Waxmann and Tara Haghighi traveled to Vietnam in summer 2010 as part of the Renaissance Journalism Center’s Vietnam Reporting Project. San Francisco State University Professor Yumi Wilson...
View ArticlePhotographs of Heather Bowser
All photographs courtesy of Heather Bowser. In Bien Hoa, Heather Morris Bowser met with a family that illustrated the typical randomness of disabilities in Bien Hoa. The oldest and youngest daughters...
View ArticleVTimes Series on Agent Orange
During 2010, VTimes, a San Jose-based Vietnamese-language weekly, published a series of articles and columns about Agent Orange in Vietnam. Vietnam Reporting Project fellows Henry Liem and Duc Ha,...
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