According to the federal government, an estimated 300,000 Vietnam veterans have died from the dangers of Agent Orange. The defoliant was heavily used during the conflict. Now, there is a new ...

Sunset veteran Robert F. Smalling, in front, poses after being presented an Orange Heart Medal from Utah Agent Orange Veterans Foundation Chairman Larry Kerr on Aug. 9, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Utah ...

Jerry Deible of Murrysville can remember standing on the ground at a Vietnam firebase in the early 1970s, staring up at a massive C-130 airplane passing overhead. He craned his head back and snapped a ...

LAYTON — A Davis County nonprofit seeks to create a memorial for Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, a chemical herbicide and defoliant used during the conflict that has been ...

This is the story of their fight for recognition, a struggle against a ticking clock and a bureaucratic wall, centered on a ...

Jun. 19—ROCHESTER — Not all U.S. service members who died from their duties in Vietnam are memorialized on the Vietnam War Memorial wall. Now, some of those whose lives were cut short by service there ...

A local Vietnam War veteran wants to see a monument dedicated to the soldiers who were exposed to Agent Orange. Don Attie, commander of the Disabled American Veterans, Louis Paul Proy Chapter 20 in ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Keith Smith’s wish was to help other Vietnam veterans affected by Agent Orange. The Independence native ...

What happens when the wounds of war don’t surface until 30 or 40 years later? This is not a rhetorical question. It’s the lived experience of thousands of Vietnam veterans whose battle scars are only ...