The month of October is used to raise awareness for dozens of causes and illnesses each year. From breast cancer to domestic violence. It’s also Agent Orange awareness month, reminding us of the ...

Social media users on Threads (archived), X (archived) and Reddit claimed that a chemical company CEO named Lars Foss once drank a glass of the notorious chemical herbicide Agent Orange on live TV to ...

A memorial to Vietnam War veterans who became ill or died after exposure to the infamous herbicide Agent Orange will be dedicated this month in Des Plaines. The freestanding, granite memorial was ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A moving tribute is now on display in Spokane, honoring veterans exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. "The Wall That Heals," a three-fourths scale replica of the Vietnam ...

At a recent Utah Agent Orange Veterans Foundation (UAOVF) fundraising event in Sunset, Robert F. Smalling was awarded the Orange Heart Medal (OHM) by UAOVF Chairman Larry Kerr. Robert is a Vietnam ...

SUNSET — Sunset will serve as the home to a planned memorial meant to honor the many unintended victims of Agent Orange, a defoliant used by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War. A Syracuse Vietnam War ...

WESTFIELD - Cory Ahonen, the assistant secretary in the Executive Office of Veterans Services, joined state Sen. John Velis and state Rep. Kelly Pease at American Legion Post 124 on Friday to proclaim ...

SUNSET — Veterans Park has been chosen as the site for a new memorial marker, the culmination of a Davis County nonprofit’s longstanding effort to honor the hundreds of thousands of Vietnam War ...

What happens when the wounds of war don’t surface until 30 or 40 years later? This is not a rhetorical question. It’s the lived experience of thousands of Vietnam veterans whose battle scars are only ...

Agent Orange is a toxic herbicide that was used during the Vietnam War. Many veterans who served in Vietnam were exposed to Agent Orange, and it has caused long-term health problems for many of them.

SYRACUSE — Looking back on his days serving in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Air Force, Larry Kerr remembers the regular exposure to Agent Orange. The chemical was stored in large drums where he ...

Jun. 19—ROCHESTER — Not all U.S. service members who died from their duties in Vietnam are memorialized on the Vietnam War Memorial wall. Now, some of those whose lives were cut short by service there ...