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Visit `Lesli Moore Dahlke YouTube Channel` for Inspired Insight into Agent Orange and Vietnam

New video channel offers very real, raw, vulnerable dialog of surviving cancer and Agent Orange.

(LOS ANGELES) - Lesli Moore Dahlke is part of the civilian population who lived and worked in Vietnam.

Lesli's new YouTube channel launched just two days ago --- and the Collateral Damage "short" from Lesli's Documentary is up, as of yesterday.

Traveling Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall Comes to Portland

Community Invited to Pay Respects to America’s War Veterans

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Dignity Memorial® Vietnam Wall, a three-quarter-scale traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be open for public viewing November 9 – 12 at Skyline Memorial Gardens.

Free and open to the public 24 hours a day from Friday, November 9 through Monday, November 12 the replica is eight feet high and 240 feet long. Its black, reflective surface is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 servicemen and women who died or are missing in Vietnam.

Victims of Agent Orange - Dioxin Poisoning

There are Bills in legislation that can make our lives less frustrating. Those Bills are House Bill HR-3612 and Senate Bill S.1629. Please urge your members of Congress and Senate to pass them.

(MEDIA, PA) - Victims of Agent Orange (AO) who are infected, Vietnam veterans, children of Vietnam veterans; then there are spouses and mothers or fathers who are victims by association.

By banding together and pressing forward to be heard is the only way we victims can win.

VA Approves 212 Ship Incidents for Presumptive Exposure to Agent Orange Conditions Affecting Vietnam Veterans

An estimated 60-80,000 Vietnam Veterans may be involved in the 212 “Brown Water” Ship & Units Incidents.

(SAN DIEGO) - An estimated 60-80,000 Vietnam Veterans may be involved in the 212 “Brown Water” Ship & Units Incidents.

Landmines Still Exacting a Heavy Toll on Vietnamese Civilians

37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.

(DA NANG The Guardian) - Somewhere in the centre of Vietnam, roughly halfway between Hanoi and Saigon, lies the small province of Quang Tri.

It was here, at around 10am on one sweltering hot morning in 1988, as Nguyen Dinh Thu was hoeing the small piece of land his parents had given him, that he struck the unexploded US military bomb that had lain undisturbed there for 15 years.

US Dioxin Cleanup Politically Driven

The freeing up of US dollars for Da Nang may be less encompassed by altruistic motives, and more by self-serving tendencies...

(DA NANG, Viet Nam) - For over three decades, the US has claimed that no proof exists proving Agent Orange is the cause of significant health complications in Vietnamese citizens who may have been exposed to the herbicide.

Vietnamese scientists, shortly after the cessation of hostilities between the two countries in 1975, described an increase in human birth defects...

Vietnam: Release Social Activists and Bloggers; Withdraw all Charges

The International Declaration of Human Rights establishes that freedom of speech and freedom of assembly; are guaranteed by the United Nations.

(SALEM) - 17 Vietnamese activists and bloggers are being kept behind bars without access to the most basic rights.

Vietnam trashes its world reputation by persecuting people who disagree.

Vietnam: Attack on Human Rights Lawyer Mr Le Quoc Quan

A Vietnamese attorney who works in human rights activism needs real, sincere protection from Vietnam's government.

(SALEM) - A prominent human rights lawyer in Vietnam, Mr Le Quoc Quan, was attacked near his home in Hanoi and the suspects he believes, have ties to police.

An outspoken attorney for human rights; Le Quoc Quan represents people who are suffering from human rights violations.

Veterans: Doing The Job Of Our Legislators?

This is published as a press release; John encourages all interested media to republish this information, thank you.

(MEDIA, PA) - When it involves Vietnam veterans, some (not all) of our legislators turn a deaf ear.

Those who do understand our health problems do try to help. They are the minority. I speak for Navy Blue Water Sailors, as well as some Air Force and Fleet Marines.

The Terrible Legacy of Agent Orange

Forty years after war ended, Washington begins decontamination of worst-affected areas in Vietnam

(DA NANG, Viet Nam AOAG) - Tran Thi Hoan, 26, studied medicine only to be told that she couldn’t become a doctor because of a war fought 20 years before she was born.

The ostensible reason was that she had no legs or left hand, but the main reason, and the cause of so much misery blighting the lives of millions of other Vietnamese, is the 20 million gallons of Agent Orange sprayed in her country by US forces in the Sixties.