The Legacy of Chemical War: Vietnam and Agent Orange
Posted on Jun 1, 2007 09:25am CST.
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The Legacy of Chemical War: Vietnam and Agent Orange
Diane Fox, coordinator of the Vietnam Agent Orange Education Project and Resource Center, says that a war we fought in Vietnam more than 30 years ago is still having repercussions in the lives — and in the land — of the Vietnamese people today. Some estimates place the number of Vietnamese birth defects since the war in areas sprayed heavily by the deadly defoliant in the hundreds of thousands. Clearly millions of Vietnamese lives have been affected by the dioxin causing illnesses. For more information, visit warlegacies.org.
Diane Fox lived and worked in Vietnam from 1991 to 2001, spending half of each year in Vietnam and half in the US. During her first years there she taught English in Hanoi, in northern Vietnam, coordinated volunteer teachers throughout the country, led a pilot study abroad program in Hue, in central Vietnam, and did copy editing, writing and some translating for English language publications. Later, while doing field work for a PhD in anthropology on the consequences of Agent Orange, she did consultation work for the International and Vietnamese Red Cross societies. She has taught Vietnamese Studies at Portland State University and Hamilton College where she is a scholar in residence. For more information, visit warlegacies.org.
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Diane Fox, coordinator of the Vietnam Agent Orange Education Project and Resource Center, says that a war we fought in Vietnam more than 30 years ago is still having repercussions in the lives — and in the land — of the Vietnamese people today. Some estimates place the number of Vietnamese birth defects since the war in areas sprayed heavily by the deadly defoliant in the hundreds of thousands. Clearly millions of Vietnamese lives have been affected by the dioxin causing illnesses. For more information, visit warlegacies.org.
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Episode 1: Rich or poor, North or south -- Agent Orange doesn’t respect boundaries (26 min.)
Diane Fox worked for the International Red Cross interviewing Vietnamese families living with the lingering affects of Agent Orange and other defoliants. For Tom Fox, she describes these families sufferings and strengths.
Episode 2: How do we approach the suffering of these people? (25 min.)
Diane Fox describes for interviewer Tom Fox legal and humanitarian efforts to help Vietnamese and American veterans and their families dealing with the legacy of Agent Orange.
Diane Fox lived and worked in Vietnam from 1991 to 2001, spending half of each year in Vietnam and half in the US. During her first years there she taught English in Hanoi, in northern Vietnam, coordinated volunteer teachers throughout the country, led a pilot study abroad program in Hue, in central Vietnam, and did copy editing, writing and some translating for English language publications. Later, while doing field work for a PhD in anthropology on the consequences of Agent Orange, she did consultation work for the International and Vietnamese Red Cross societies. She has taught Vietnamese Studies at Portland State University and Hamilton College where she is a scholar in residence. For more information, visit warlegacies.org.
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