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Toxic legacy: How the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange poisoned Vietnam June 2, 2021 3:37 PM CDT By Amiad Horowitz
Neighborhood children look through a window at Tran Thi Le Huyen, 23, sitting in a wheelchair in her family home in Danang, Vietnam in this May 21, 2007, file photo. The young woman was listed by the Vietnamese government as a victim of Agent Orange contamination. Her family once lived near the highly contaminated Danang Airbase and her father was a driver for the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government during the war. | David Guttenfelder / AP
The following article is the first installment in a two-part series on U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam. Part one provides historical background to the issue; the next will cover the victims and their legal battles. Mr. Nguyễn Thanh Sơn was barely an adult in the 1960s when he joined the People’s Army of Vietnam, known to Americans at the time as the North Vietnamese Army, or the NVA. Mr.