Casualties Continue in Vietnam

The devastation of unexploded ordnance from the ‘American War.’

By Nick Turse

DAI NGHIA VILLAGE, Vietnam--A house sits vacant off a dirt path in Dai An hamlet. The concrete home has a rusted corrugated metal roof, and attached to the building is a small, open-air structure standing on wood supports. Its metal roof is pockmarked with holes [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    This is a big black mark on the history of the U.S.

    Thirty years from now, the same things will be happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never learn.

    United States Posted by patrick hattman on May 18, 2009 at 8:40 PM

    Unfortunately not patrick hattman ; as long as profits can be made for the imperialist war mongers who run this industrail military corporate state complex…
    No amerikans will never learn.
    Additionally , the citizenry has to stop being suckers for every amerikanizationalized scam these war profiteers run.
    The real question should be ; when will mainstream amerikans wise up too the scare tactics used to convince them that their tax dollars should be spend on this industrail war machine and it’s molestational intentioned objectives, instead of spending that money on social programs in their own communities??
    But then again , amerika was built on the backs of the afrikan slave trade/ labor , and the demonic egomaniacal excesses that erupt from such egregious profiteerism….Most mainstream amerikans don’t have an identification with the indecencies and indiscretions of the origins of that imperialism, so why should anyone expect more from them on this point of fact…Unfortunate but true…...............

    United States Posted by blackhorse on Aug 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    I fail to see how this is US responsibility 40 years after the end of the war. It isn’t as though Vietnam lived up to its end of the peace bargain in order to receive help from the US getting rid of UXO.

    It is a human tragedy but so is all war. North Vietnam clearly was the aggressor against not only South Vietnam but Laos and Cambodia as well.

    This is clearly within the domain of Vietnam’s responsibility for its own people’s safety. Blaming the US only attempts to relieve itself of its own responsibility politically and make long absent nations responsible. I now many millions of those tons of UXO originated in China and the Soviet Union and delivered against US and S.Vietnamese forces yet there is an absence of calls for reparations from the Russia or China to remove its ordinance because these nations still give modern weapons deals to Vietnam!

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    Pakistan Posted by Halaku Kote on Nov 9, 2010 at 4:39 AM

    It is not just the war but the chemicals from explosions which set back the country. There is no doubt that it was a bloody war and the disaster stroked not only in Vietnam but many Americans lost their lives. Even today, there are many people in both countries who are working hard to recover from the shock that war has given to them. - Jordan

    United States Posted by brandi on Nov 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM

    The Vietnam War was engaged willingly by both sides. The North failed to live up to its peace agreement of 1973 which would have provided a peace dividend for the people of Vietnam in helping to rebuild their nation. The clause in the agreement required the North to find a peaceful solution to its political differences with the South. The negated any support or help from the US in cleanup or rebuilding by failing to live up to their agreements with the US and South Vietnam. This means quite clearly that all costs of repair and rebuilding of the country was willingly born by the North. The fact that they have done poorly in the social rebuilding of the nation. Anything less then Vietnam’s complete submission to its self incurred responsibilities for war and needless violence against the South, Cambodia and Laos is affront to the facts of signed agreements. I feel absolutely no responsibility for Vietnam whatsoever and I hope and pray our government doesn’t send a single nickle to Vietnam, government of!

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