Memorial Day has special meaning for Mary Pohl. The holiday remembers the men and women who died while serving in the military. But Mary, 61, of Muhlenberg Township will tell you that not all those ...

FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in ...

One of the most tragic conflicts of the Cold War era (1945-1991), took place between the southeast Asian counties of North and South Vietnam. With some help from the Soviet Union, the communist forces ...

WASHINGTON — Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have a higher risk of developing a rare blood cancer that develops slowly over decades, according to a new study that for the first time links ...

One of the U.S. military’s many challenges in the Vietnam War was fighting through a seemingly endless jungle that the enemy knew better than Americans ever could. Its solution was Operation Ranch ...

A girl who has health problems because of exposure to Agent Orange practices sewing at a special school In Da Nang, Vietnam, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Aniruddha Ghosal) DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The ...

At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s Agent Orange defoliant. The ...

HANOI, Vietnam — At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s Agent ...

FILE- A Vietnamese soldier stands guard in front of military aircraft near a dioxin contaminated area while U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visits Bien Hoa air base in Bien Hoa, outside Ho Chi Minh ...