Discuss: Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won’t End

Ben, I think you are right. My Dad talks about wanting to go back to see Can Tho now. He wants to see what it is like in peace time & finds it interesting that you can go on “vacation” there. Of the Vietnamese I have met, they are wonderfully grateful & in high spirits. Totally amazing to me. Thanks for your story & everyone else’s comments. Very interesting.

The site\’\’s very professional! Keep up the good work! Oh yes, one extra comment - maybe you could add more pictures too! So, good luck to your team!

Ben thanks. It’s brilliant that is why it touched the hearts of so great amount of people. Keep on!

So sad. Also heartbreaking is the fact that we’ve been in this continuum of wars in other peoples’ lands every day since Vietnam, be it in Latin America, Middle East, the Balkans.  And we’ve gone from Agent Orange to Depleted Uranium.

Such incredible courage you have shared with us through your life’s story-telling!  Thank you, Ben, for providing through language your expressions of horror, your understanding of pain, your understanding of the need for all wars to cease, and more.  The lessons you taught me are repeated daily as refugees tell their stories; for example, though the “end of the war” in Vietnam was 1975, there really will be no “end” until the humans on the planet decide to stop killing each other. I’ve come to think that Dr. Suess’s Butter Battle Book and Howard Zenn’s A People’s History of the US should be required reading. May we learn sooner than later that non-violence is life-giving, respect for all life is essential, and that ignoring the costs of war on our children and grandchildren’s children will kill the planet as surely as Agent Orange has killed and changed life as we have known it. Thank you, again.

Wow, Ben. What an eloquent piece of work. It is wonderful to read it now after having talked to you about your recent travels to Vietnam. Clearly you have moved many people with your story. Well done. Do it some more.