Agent Orange
Sharity Keith-Reichard
June 17, 2015
T hese are some of the things Sharity Keith-Reichard wrote on an Agent Orange Web page: • I was 2 when they diagnosed me with Alopecia Universalis (loss of scalp and body hair) . •…
Maynard Kaderlik
June 17, 2015
Joshua Kaderlik came home one day from his fourth grade classes in Minnesota and said to his father, Maynard, “Dad, I’m really dumb.” It was not said jokingly. It came from the little boy’s heart.…
Gary Jones’s Story
June 17, 2015
For Gary Jones, the puzzle that is Agent Orange can be explained, or more to the point, not explained, by two words — “circumstantial” and “coincidence.” The words are at once the core and the…
Joe Ingino
June 17, 2015
“I never put two and two together, ” Joe Ingino said. It took a long time before he could do the math, and even after the metaphorical numbers in his Agent Orange equation added up,…
The Holybees
June 17, 2015
Sonja Holybee says of her oldest child, Stephanie, 35: “She will not give in to it.” She says the same thing of her other two children, Melisa, 33, and Dan, 30. But Stephanie is the…
The Hansens
June 17, 2015
Karl Hansen’s son, Adam, had been dead five years before questions about Agent Orange arose. Until then, Karl had not given the herbicide a thought in all the years that followed his Vietnam tour of…
Mark David Finley
June 17, 2015
Two years ago, Mark David Finley rolled his mobility scooter into my office. He had come to talk about his tour of duty in Vietnam and to share how his service had wreaked havoc on…
Dan Griffin
June 17, 2015
In any conversation about the effects of Agent Orange on the children of Vietnam veterans, Dan Griffin’s daughters provide a clear demarcation line for him.
Msgt LeRoy Foster
June 17, 2015
LeRoy Foster never set foot in Vietnam. He didn’t serve in the blue water Navy off the coast of Vietnam, either. In fact, he didn’t come within about 2, 400 miles of Vietnam. But the…
Zack Earp
June 17, 2015
“The worst thing is not having an answer, ” says former California State Council President and longtime VVA activist Zack Earp. “I know there are lists of birth defects and stories about how Agent Orange…