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Still Adrift: Congressional inaction sinks hope that ailing Vietnam Navy...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010 / All Rights Reserved) Ann Langston sent a desperate note to her senator in early June asking for help expediting her husband’s Agent Orange claim. Bruce Langston had...
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Toxic Legacy: A brief history of Agent Orange in Vietnam
• 1961 to 1972: U.S. military sprays some 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides across Vietnam and some parts of Laos under Operation Ranch Hand. • 1968-69: U.S. Military uses Agent...
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Brown Water Bungle: Paperwork error excluded hundreds of Vietnam Navy...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011/All Rights Reserved) Hundreds of Vietnam Navy veterans whose Agent Orange claims were denied because the VA failed to obtain key military records will receive benefits as a...
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Brown Water Update: VA updates list of Vietnam Navy ships exposed to Agent...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011/ All Rights Reserved) The VA has finally posted an expanded list of U.S. Navy ships exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The so-called Brown Water ships list...
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Richard Christian Jr., champion of Vietnam veterans in battle for Agent...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2012 All Rights Reserved) Richard S. Christian, Jr., who endured withering hostility from the Reagan Administration for his meticulous and tireless work on behalf of Vietnam...
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Rare Victory: Vietnam Navy veterans struggle to prove, and keep, Agent Orange...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved) Surgeons started removing strange growths from Mark Crosbie’s body a few years after he came home from Vietnam. Over the next three decades, they...
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Veterans and widows are bewildered by VA’s unpredictable — and seemingly...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved) When Mary Warner’s husband became too sick to care for himself, she took early retirement and a reduced pension to attend to his needs. It was a...
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