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Search results for "Vietnam War" ...
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Kent State -- 40 Years After May 4
Forty years after the historic Kent State shootings, the Plain Dealer uncovers new evidence about what may have caused the 28 guardsmen to fire at the students and antiwar protesters. Using an audiotape from the incident, witness reports, and key documents, the journalist found evidence that the soldiers were ordered to shoot and that someone or something provoked the order.
Tags: Kent State; protest; sound analysis; audio; Vietnam War
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"The Spy Who Loved Us"
Thomas A. Bass tells the story of famous reporter turned spy, Pham Xuan An. While working as a journalist for Time and acting as bureau chief in Saigon, An was also North Vietnam's top spy for 20 years. While he kept his cover, An received 16 military medals, most being awarded "for direct involvement in military campaigns." In his book, Bass focuses on the "elusive relationship between" journalists and "spies at war."
Tags: Vietnam War; Communist; North Vietnam; Time; Ho Chi Minh; spy; Ap Bac; Tet Offensive; Orange Coast College
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Agent Orange: A Lethal Legacy
This investigation reveals the high costs and consequences of herbicides, such as Agent Orange, used by the US military during the Vietnam War. Not only are the veterans suffering from the consequences of herbicides, but also the children of these veterans. These children suffer from multiple cancers, birth defects, and other conditions. The conditions have increased the financial compensation for the US veterans and their families. Furthermore, the US government has neglected to discover the impact of these herbicides on health and environmental conditions.
Tags: US military; Vietnam War; US government; government; health; birth defects; defoliants; financial compensation; disability; veterans; families; US Department of Veterans Affairs
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The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about War Crimes
"'The War Behind Me' describes our search for answers, not only from the archive but also from the men named in it. We tracked down veterans accused of committing atrocities, witnesses who reported them, and higher-ups who covered them up."
Tags: Vietnam; war crimes; veterans; massacres; Quang Nam; My Lai; National Archives; declassified army investigations;
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The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about War Crimes
This book was born out of an archive of war-crime reports from the Vietnam war. Declassified in 1990, they shed light on the extent of such atrocities during the Vietnam conflict. "The War Behind Me describes our search for answers, not only from the archive but also from the men named in it. We tracked down veterans accused of committing atrocities, witnesses who reported them, and higher-ups who covered them up."
Tags: Vietnam; war crimes; atrocities; Army; My Lai; Quang Nam; massacre; Swift Boat Veterans; FOIA; National Archives; Marine; Veterans Administration; war
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The Last Ghost of War
"Over three decades after the Vietnam War, deadly dioxin has worked its way into the food chain and, some argue, the gene pool, with tragic results." This documentary details several plaintiffs in a class action suit, who are "seeking justice and compensation for medical care from U.S. chemical companies."
Tags: disabled children; Agent Orange; chemical weapons; dioxin; Saigon
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Vietnam: The War Crime Files
"An LA Times investigation- based on thousands of declassified records from the Army chief of staff's office, scores of interviews and a trip to Vietnam- found that U.S. troops reported more than 800 war crimes in Vietnam, yet many were publicly discredited even as the military uncovered evidence that they were telling the truth."
Tags: Vietnam; war crime; army; military; torture; murder; My Lai; Seymour Hersh; national archive
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
An in depth report of the "...elite Army platoon that killed hundreds of unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War, and a military officer who substantiated the war crimes- only to see his investigation covered up by the Pentagon."
Tags: Vietnam War; Army; Tiger Force; war crimes; Department of Denfense; civilian casualties
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Over My Dead Body
Mary Spicuzza of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times looks at the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on U.S. soldiers returning from the war in Iraq. Her story looks at the life and death of one such soldier who committed suicide at the age of 25 as a result of PTSD. Experts say the number of soldiers returning home from Iraq face emotional trauma worse than those who served in Vietnam decades ago.
Tags: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; soldier suicides; Iraq; behavioral health
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Danger Dismissed: How the Pentagon downplays the risks of depleted uranium weapons
Evans discovers that the veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War "have a disability rate three times as high as that of Vietnam and World War II veterans," and that this trend may be the result of using depleted uranium weapons. His eight-chapter series takes an in-depth look at the science of depleted uranium weapons, centralizing his focus around Matt Rohman, a Gulf War veteran who lives every day in pain. Evans explores different concepts of radiobiology, geology, radiation physics, and health science, and takes a look at what depleted uranium weapons could mean for today's soldier.
Tags: depleted uranium weapons; Pentagon; Gulf War Syndrome; Gulf War illness; war-related illness; ill veterans; nerve disorders; Lou Gehrig's disease; nuclear weapons; chronic fatigue; bystander effect; radioactive dust; military munitions; depleted uranium exposure; veterans with cancer; pyridostigmine bromide; chemical weapons; biological weapons; Fort Eustis; C-4 plastic explosive