More than three decades after the Vietnam War ended, the Vietnamese people continue to live with the consequences of Agent Orange, a defoliant that has come to symbolize the unintended consequences of warfare.
War's Lasting Legacy
Published November 13, 2008
It's been 18 months since Phung Tuu Boi gave me a tour of his Agent Orange remediation projects in Vietnam. Now I get a chance to show him some of my country.
Mr. Boi is in the U.S. this month to speak about his work to scientists, students and journalists. Last night George Lerner and I joined with Mr. Boi and Susan Hammond of the War Legacies Project for an informal discussion of Agent Orange in Vietnam at Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation.
This afternoon I discussed our Agent Orange project with students from Bill Gentile's Foreign Correspondence course at American University.
Tonight, Mr. Boi and I will join David Bosco for a roundtable at American University.
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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting With Sponsorship by The War Legacies Project and the Program for International Studies in Asia, The Elliott School of International Affairs Presents
The American Society of Journalists and Authors presented Christie Aschwanden with the 2008 Arlenes Award.
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Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning freelance writer and journalist based in western Colorado. She is a contributing editor for Health magazine and a contributing writer for Skiing. Her work has...
