Vietnam: 30 Years Later--Rediscovering Vietnam: Agent Orange's Effects. Ron Harris.
by Harris, Ron; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 12Global Issues. Publisher: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Agent Orange | Bombs | Land mines | Vietnamese -- Attitudes | Vietnamese War (1957-1975) -- Medical aspects | Vietnamese War (1957-1975) -- VeteransDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War is a distant--though painful--memory for most people here, just as it is for tens of thousands of American families....But for some across this nation, the scars of the war are not a thing of the past. For them, the war still goes on daily. Every year, numerous Vietnamese are maimed or killed by unexploded American ordnance--bombs, mines and other ammunition from the war that are still embedded in the earth, according to the Vietnamese and others." (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) This article examines the lingering effects that unexploded munitions and toxins, such as Agent Orange, continue to have on the Vietnamese population.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Vietnam: 30 Years Later--Rediscovering Vietnam: Agent Orange's Effects, April 27, 2005; pp. n.p..
"Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War is a distant--though painful--memory for most people here, just as it is for tens of thousands of American families....But for some across this nation, the scars of the war are not a thing of the past. For them, the war still goes on daily. Every year, numerous Vietnamese are maimed or killed by unexploded American ordnance--bombs, mines and other ammunition from the war that are still embedded in the earth, according to the Vietnamese and others." (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) This article examines the lingering effects that unexploded munitions and toxins, such as Agent Orange, continue to have on the Vietnamese population.
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