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To Live or Die for a Real America...

(CINCINNATI) - I talked with one of my good friends last night. He was in Vietnam in the 1960s, as was I. He spent much of his life working in intelligence, not a safe and warm occupation during the cold war, when there may have been honor in the word “intelligence.”

Abnormal Cancer Rates at Fort Detrick Tied to Monsanto`s Agent Orange

Monsanto's Agent Orange; the gift of death that keeps on killing...

(BALTIMORE, Md.) - Deadly poisons at Fort Detrick, tied to Agent Orange and the Vietnam War, have led to a warning from public health officials about certain cancers affecting younger people who live near the base.

The AP reported Monday that investigators will probe deeper into the discrepancies involving liver, bone and endocrine cancers.

Combat Infantry Badge: The Most Dangerous Decoration

The Combat Infantryman should have some special recognition because it was he who did the fighting, killing, wounding and dying.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Few people who are not Combat Infantrymen know or understand the significance of this most honorable badge. Many of those who earned and wore it above all other decorations often wish they didn’t have it.

As for it, I’m as proud of it as I am of my two doctor's degrees. The Combat Infantry badge C.I.B. is by far the most dangerous decoration. Many of you do not have the slightest idea what I’m talking about.

Agent Orange Cleanup to Start at Former US Base in Vietnam

The agreement covers contamination at the Danang airport in central Vietnam.

(HANOI (AFP) ) - Vietnam and the United States aim to start cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange at a former wartime US base in the middle of next year, the US embassy said Thursday.

A memorandum signed between the two sides "confirms the mutual desire of both governments to cooperate in hopes that cleanup can begin in July 2011 and be completed in October 2013," the statement said.

A Holiday Message from Veterans Today

Veterans Today exists to end the unnecessary cycles of war.

(CINCINNATI) - The holidays are a time to remember what things are all about, why we are who we are, why we fight wars and why so many have sacrificed so much. It isn’t a time for blame, for envy, for recriminations.

Dioxin and Glioblastoma in the Vietnam Veteran Population

Summary and recommendations for IOM open session Albuquerque NM 2010.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The tracking of glioblastomas in the aging population of Vietnam veterans exposed to dioxin has been neglected.

The poorly researched and nonsensical U.S. AIR FORCE RANCH HAND study has been sighted as evidence. The Seveso Italy incident is also used as evidence.

America`s War Veterans: PTSD and its Cure

If the suffering veterans of America can forge a movement to loudly say NO to the vile indignities being heaped upon us right here at home in the land of the free, they can make a difference to their own healing.

(LOS ANGELES) - The two American websites, Veterans Today and Salem News, run by two former US Military veterans, contain some of the most outstanding RealitySpeak writings by both civilians and America's war veterans, presumably, all mostly being eagerly ingested by other American war veterans.

In full disclosure, these websites also reprint my two cents every now and then.

Veterans for Peace Engage in White House Civil Disobedience to End War

"Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves.
Hope does not separate us from them.
Hope sees in our enemy our own face..." -Chris Hedges

(SALEM, Ore.) - More than 100 people were arrested in a Civil Disobedience at the White House protesting the continuing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Iraq.

Chris Hedges' extraordinarily anti-war soliloquy is inter-cut with interviews with Veterans from recent wars.

Photograph of Danang Girl Affected by Agent Orange Wins UNICEF Photo of the Year Contest

Agent Orange continues to create health problems for children and adults in Vietnam.

(WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.) - A young Danang girl is receiving international attention and bringing awareness to the lingering effects of Agent Orange after she was featured in the 2010 UNICEF Photo of the Year.

Nine-year-old Ly is pictured in a portrait taken by Ed Kashi, with VII Photos, who lives in New Jersey. Kashi photographed Ly and other children helped by Children of Vietnam in July 2010.

US OK`s $17 Million for Agent Orange Cleanup in Post-War Vietnam

Meanwhile, two other dioxin "hot spots" in Vietnam - former US air bases at Bien Hoa and Phu Cat - have yet to be cleansed...

(DA NANG, Vietnam VietNamNet Bridge) - The US government has earmarked US$17 million to partly clean up a former US air base from toxic defoliant Agent Orange in the central Da Nang City next year.

Considered to be dioxin "hot spot," the Da Nang Airport will be decontaminated in the summer.