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Veterans
for Peace
Local Chapter 72
December
7th 2005 Agent Orange Tour to Portland
by Dan Shea
See Veterans
For Peace links
and Education WithOut Borders website at
www.ewobusa.org.
Miae Kim reports for KBOO:
http://www.kboo.fm
Agent Orange Victims
A delegation of Vietnamese Agent Orange victims recently visited
Portland as part of a ten U-S city justice tour
( runs 4:47)
December 29, 2005
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We just finished an
event for Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange more info on Veterans
For Peace links and Education
WithOut Borders website www.ewobusa.org.
The event:
- Digital
slide show and DVD of Julie
Thi Underhill's
photography.
- Welcome comments
from Professor Tom Hastings,
Director of Peace & Nonviolence
Studies in the Portland State through the Department
of Conflict Resolution. Tom is also the associate editor of
The PeaceWorker
a monthly publication distributed widely throughout Oregon.
Tom also spoke of his brother-in-law who suffered and died from
the effect of Agent Orange.
Mrs. Hong Nhut
Mr Vu Binh
- Merle
Ratner, the Campaign coordinator for the Vietnam
Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign,
who gave a brief presentation of the issues and introduced each
of the guests and their interpreter Mr. Vu Binh, Mrs Dang Hong
Nhut from HoChi Minh City, Mr. Ho Sy Hai , a veteran army truck
driver from Thai Binh, and Dr. Nguyen Trong Nhan, former president
of the Vietnam Red Cross. There were many tears shed .
- Dan
Shea on
the importance of reparations, the consequences of war and the
comparison of between then and Iraq now.
Prof Tom Hastings
Mike Hastie
- There were lots
of press, Seans early announcement with Thom
Hartman, myself and the victims in on air interview
and discussion 10:30 AM KBOO
for some 28 minutes. The Portland
Alliance had us on their calendar, and
Bette Lee wrote a piece on Vietnam.
- Flying
Focus Video
taped the program; Miae Kim a
journalist interviewed our guests earlier in the day and wants
to continue with some follow up interviews with veterans, especially
VFP'ers for a documentary she is producing. A graduate student
at the University of Oregon Le
Khanh come
and to meet and exchange information for his thesis on Agent
Orange, the law suit against the chemical companies and the
U.S. government for compensation of injuries.
Bob Goss
 Merle & Michael
We want to thank all
the veterans who helped on this project, especially
- Bob
Goss, Colleen
Helmstetter, and
Malcolm Chaddock;
- Grant
Remington for
the MRG grant and other details;
- VFP
Chapter for their support and contribution;
- Julie
Thi-Underhill and Tom
Hastings.
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