Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971)

Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that

2013-05-18 22:41:00

PORTLAND, Ore. — Proponents of fluoridating Portland's water supply had no trouble getting the local Urban League on board. Here in the biggest city in the country that still doesn't treat its water to prevent tooth decay, studies show that low-...

Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation

2013-05-11 18:10:00

Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...

Letters: Vietnam today

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Re "The Vietnam syndrome," Opinion, May 5 Frank Snepp, a former CIA analyst who was in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, worries that we may not have learned the lessons of our war in that country. He may have missed the most important lesson....

The veterans benefits backlog

2013-03-31 00:00:00

It is shameful that veterans of the United States military have to wait months, and sometimes more than a year, to begin receiving the benefits they are owed after their years of service. Yet that is the case. Almost 900,000 veterans across the...

U.S. still paying survivor benefits to children of Civil War vets

2013-03-19 12:17:00

The U.S. government is paying billions to war veterans and their families, including monthly payments to the children of Civil War veterans. More than $40 billion annually is being paid out to soldiers and survivors of the Civil War, the Spanish-...

Mike Atta benefit to star Watt, Adolescents, Burger tape, more

2013-01-25 12:52:00

Former first-generation Southern California punk guitarist Mike Atta might not be as known as some of the peers he and his band the Middle Class influenced, but his place in the annals of L.A. rebel music is understood. The band was founded in 1977, and...

Buried history in Hanoi

2013-01-20 00:00:00

Out beyond the swank poolside bar at Hanoi's Metropole hotel, which I visited last month, a gated entrance opens onto a dark set of stairs. At the bottom is a dank and musty bomb shelter, and, for those who can read Vietnamese, a sign in golden...

Frank Lopez Sr. dies at 64; sought San Jose Vietnam vets memorial

2012-12-05 00:00:00

Frank Lopez Sr., a decorated Marine whose nightmares from the Vietnam War led him to launch a drive for a memorial honoring fellow San Jose servicemen who gave their lives in the conflict, died Nov. 24 of illnesses stemming from exposure to Agent Orange,...

U.S. to begin cleaning up Agent Orange at tainted Vietnamese site

2012-08-08 12:23:54

Obama: 'America’s military is the best that it’s ever been'

2011-08-30 16:36:19

Joe Biden update: No 'Mission Accomplished' claim on Iraq, but no 'victory' either

2010-08-23 21:36:23

Foundation mends Vietnamese hearts that may have been stricken by wartime use of Agent Orange

2011-04-09 00:00:00

As she so often does, Marichia Simcik Arese will host one of her unusual crafts boutiques this weekend at her Pacific Palisades home. And two days after that she will head for Vietnam to encourage the disabled young artists who create chic water bottle...

, Mercy Medical Center When James L. Frazier was a little boy, growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., his parents had a firm rule: If he wanted to go outside and play, he had to read first. His earliest notions of science came that way, poring over Charlie Brown's Cyclopedia.

2010-09-12 00:00:00

A morning cleaning crew picks up litter and fallen leaves on the shore of Bien Hung Lake in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. The lake is contaminated with dioxin dating to the storage of herbicides nearby during the Vietnam War.

2009-09-20 00:00:00

Debbie Thompson is comforted by her brother Carlos Rivera as she mourns the death of her father recently.

2009-05-25 00:00:00