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Life is not all Hard Edges

Update On My Leukemia Diagnosis.

(ENNIS, Mt.) - Many of our readers know me through my writing here at Salem-News.com about my plight, challenges and struggles with Agent Orange exposure. I unknowingly received extensive exposure during Christmas 1970 in Vietnam during a USO Tour.

I value the support I have received from many of our readers. I appreciate the comments— some favorable, some not. No matter what your personal opinion, continuing a dialog on this highly emotional and difficult political topic is moving in a positive direction.

VA Posts Online List of Ships Associated with Presumptive AO Exposure

Veterans claiming other conditions may file online at VA's My-eBenefits Website.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Veterans who served aboard U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships operating on the waters of Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, may be eligible to receive Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation for 14 medical conditions associated with presumptive exposure to Agent Orange.

An updated list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships confirmed to have operated on Vietnam's inland waterways, docked on shore, or had crewmembers sent ashore, has been posted online.

Photographer Traces the Heartbreak of War

Scars of the Viet Nam War will be held at the ArtSpace Seogyo in Seoul from November 12 to 19.

(HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam) - The tears falling down the wrinkled face of an old woman in Binh Dinh Province sent Japanese photojournalist Yasufumi Murayama on an odyssey around South Korea to find the man she had loved during the war and had two children with.

Murayama was on one of several trips he made to Central Viet Nam to interview victims raped by South Korean troops during the war when he met Lam Thi Ky, 68, when she told him the story of her life before 1975.

From Cheerleader to Enemy of the State

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War published by Trine Day.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - The long, flouncy curls from Judy Davis's cheerleader days are gone. Her straight blonde hair is now cut short. Large blue eyes stand out in a face pale without makeup.

Her soft Southern drawl has an undertone of determination. "It's taken me awhile, but now I'm glad to be considered an 'unsuitable influence.'

Open Letter to the PM of Canada Reference Gagetown

Gagetown’s defoliation program started six years before the Vietnam war.

(NANAIMO, B.C.) - During my recent trip to Vietnam for the Second International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange and my subsequent guided tour of Vietnam’s children's survivors clinics and help centers provided by, “The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (vava),” as well as many of the sites still very contaminated, we were accompanied by the countries top dioxin specialist and chemist.

Blow the Whistle on the Army-CIA McCarthy Saga

Please sign this petition and forward

(WASHINGTON D.C .) - John McCarthy’s is one military officer's saga of battle with the most powerful and criminally insane Government of the United States of America.

He’s fought to regain his reputation for over three decades now, consistently stone-walled by two Government agencies-the Army and the CIA.

Sara! Sara, come back! Don`t leave me here!

I hear someone again. I hear them walking away. I want to call out. I’m trying to call out. Why can’t I?

(RAPID CITY, S.D. Dakota Voice) - Tragically, Gary Harvey of Horsehead, NY fell down the basement stairs in January of 2006 and received a traumatic head injury.

Agent Orange Claim Filing Deadline Aug. 30

Veterans can file for disability claims online at VA's Agent Orange Fast Track Claims Processing System.

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - Vietnam-era veterans who have medical diagnoses for three presumptive conditions related to Agent Orange exposure need to file their disability claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs by Aug. 30 in order to qualify for up to one year of retroactive benefits.

Organic v. Monsanto

Even as the megacorporation enjoys soaring stock, the U.S. justice department continues to look into allegations of Monsanto's fraudulent antitrust practices.

(LONDON) - More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed last March.

Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the family farmers are fighting for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic—and preemptively protecting themselves from accusations of stealing genetically modified seeds that drift on to their pristine crop fields.

Salem-News.com Writer Lesli Dahlke Appears On POW/MIA Radio

Catch the program at: http://www.americanewsnet.com.

(LOS ANGELES) - Salem-News.com writer Lesli Dahlke is a scheduled guest for the POW/MIA Radio show Sunday, August 14, 2011. The program, News and Views: An hour of the latest POW/MIA and veterans issues., begins at 2:00 p.m. MT.

in 1970, at 18 years old, Ms. Lesli Moore Dahlke was touched by the television images of our young soldiers in Vietnam and volunteered for a USO Handshaking Christmas tour in Vietnam.