Comments on: Understanding Agent Orange

By: Len Aldis

Len Aldis — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:13:00 +0000

Hi James, thanks for your email, good to read the issue of Agent Orange and the legacy it left for the people of Vietnam is still high on the agenda. It certainly is for me and many thousands in many lands. I just came back 16th Dec from a second visit to Vietnam where I along with a few others from UK met with some of the children at Tu Du Hospital in HCMC, for those of the group whose first visit it was, it really shook them and I am hoping that now back home they will take action to get the US Govt and the Chemical companies headed by Monsanto and Dow to accept responsibilty and pay compensation. When there in August I learnt that the efefct of AO has now gone into the fourth generation, some legacy to leave a country that never attacked the US.

Now waiting for the 24th January where Monsanto will hold its agm in St Louis, there are signs that a number of indivduals and organisations will be outside and inside to protest to the Chairman nand the board members, making their concerns for justice loud and clear.

If more information is needed suggest your readers look at the website of a new organisation we set-up: http://www.aoag.org There you will see and read what AO has done and what action the readers can take.

Wishing you all a Great TET Chuc Mung Nam Moi

Len Aldis. Chairman
Agent Orange Action Group

By: Phiress

Phiress — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:37:00 +0000

it shouldn’t have to be a fight at all

By: Phiress

Phiress — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:37:00 +0000

yep it’s true lol grr

By: Quynh

Quynh — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:54:00 +0000

Hi, how can I donate to help the victims? Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:10:00 +0000

yes it is very true

By: Boo

Boo — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:07:00 +0000

hello i ust to liv in there

By: Boo

Boo — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:04:00 +0000

shut up now are you mad

By: k.r.e

k.r.e — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:09:27 +0000

American political figures seem to forget that America is made of immigrants, and we are all from the entire world. We killed our brothers and sisters in a heartless battle. America wanted freedom from one person having too much power and now the polotics are trying to control the world. It makes no sense. They say education is so important and now they’re taking our teachers away from us. America’s going nowhere good until they are reminded that we’re only humans, and we can take so much misery for so long. I’m just a kid, and I hope that one day, when I have kids, America will be what our founding fathers once hoped for, because we’re beginning to back to where we started.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:17:28 +0000

very true and as well i believe that he has the right to comment these words, because he is speaking the truth and there is no crime in speaking. for those who believe that he is wrong to say these thing, take another look at the military in the u.s. we simply think we are better than everyone else and we basically try to rule the world like its our land when it isn’t and that’s why there is war and crimes against other countrys and terrorists, because they don’t want us to control them. america isn’t the best country and we need to respect other countrys and let them have similar and as powerful warfare as we do otherwise its never going to be a fair fight.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:09:41 +0000

He has every right to make a comment like that…freedom of press is one of our rights in the US.

By: Frances Morantes

Frances Morantes — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:56:51 +0000

I HAVE AN ADULT CHILD . HER DADDY MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE AGENT ORANGE ZONE BACK THEN..HE CAME HOME ON HOME Leave.he was contiminated already.Results were I Consieved I had a baby girl with learning disablities,she has Mental Condition all her life.Now she had a Baby Girl whom also has the same Mental condition.They both receive a little money from the state,not enought to live on,not to mention the damage the agent orange has DONE now what??I feel like The Goverment owe them a New Life. to both my Daughter ,and my Grand daughter.I STILL DON’T KNOW HOW MANY GENERATIONS THIS DAMAGE WILL GO ON FOR??????????????

By: edhino

edhino — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:23:45 +0000

i,ve applied for agent orange related va diseases they recognize they sing apretty song but den y ya iservbed in the rung sat and with 2/60 9th inf div 3rd bdge 66-67 nothing has come of it veterans are dying from cancers and diabetes and thats it many viet vets are in va hospiatl wards with amputations and diabetes thats it nothing is done they,ll wait you out till you die another name and face and nothing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:50:55 +0000

But it’s true.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:49:24 +0000

All this happened in his name as far as I remember.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:21:54 +0000

Thank you for this information — I was looking up facts on Vietnam (landscape and historical), and I had never heard of Agent Orange.
I am shocked.
The fact that compensation has not already been paid to victims is unbelievable.

Rebecca,
Scandinavia