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Название:
Waiting for an Army to Die
Автор:
Fred A. Wilcox
Издательство:
Seven Stories Press
Жанр:
military_history / Публицистика / на английском языке
Год:
2011
Город:
New York
ISBN:
978-1-60980-339-1
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“I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it,” said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an estimated 12 million gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam, in order to defoliate close to 5 million acres of its land. “Had anyone predicted that millions of human beings exposed to Agent Orange/dioxin would get sick and die,” scholar Fred A. Wilcox writes in the new introduction to his seminal book, “their warnings would have been dismissed as sci-fi fantasy or apocalyptic nonsense.” Told in a gripping and compassionate narrative style that travels from the war in Vietnam to the war at home, and through portraits of many of the affected survivors, their families, and the doctors and scientists whose clinical experience and research gave the lie to the government whitewash, Waiting for an Army to Die tells a story that, thirty years later, continues to create new twists and turns for Americans still waiting for justice and an honest account of what happened to them. Vietnam has chosen August 10—the day that the US began spraying Agent Orange on Vietnam—as Agent Orange Day, to commemorate all its citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. The new second edition of Waiting for an Army to Die will be released upon the third anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered, and continue to suffer, from this tragedy.
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From Review First published in 1983, this volume received wide praise and made ALA’s most notable list; it was “highly recommended” by LJ’s reviewer (LJ 7/83). Despite that, it went quickly out of print. This paper edition contains the original text plus a new introduction by the author, who discusses the class action suit brought against the government by Vietnam veterans suffering from their wartime exposure to the herbicide. With America’s newfound willingness to talk about Vietnam, this book should see a lot of use.
— MR
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
“My bible on the issue of Agent Orange.”
—Tom Hayden “This is a sad and frightening book, and it should not be disregarded.”
—Tracy Kidder, author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains “It is impossible to read this book without feeling outrage and despair, for the story of Agent Orange is a tragedy that affects not only Vietnam veterans, but all Americans and their offspring.”
—The Saturday Review

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3. Ton That Tung, MD, Ton Duc Lang, MD, and Do Duc Van, MD (Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam), “The Problem of Mutagenic Effects on the First Generation after Exposure to Defoliants”; Ton That Tung, Ton Duc Lang, and Do Duc Van, “The Mutagenacity of Dioxin and Its Effects on Reproduction among Exposed War Veterans,” unpublished papers.

4. Ibid.

5. Arthur W. Galston, “Herbicides in Vietnam,” New Republic , November 25, 1967.

6. Martin Woollacott, “Agent Orange Still Takes Toll,” The Guardian , reprinted in US and World Section of the Boston Globe , June 4, 1980.

7. Testimony of Maureen Ryan before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US Senate, February 21, 1980.

8. Thomas Whiteside, The Withering Rain: America’s Herbicidal Folly (New York: Dutton, 1971), p. 46.

9. “Vets Told Agent Orange Decision Is Years Away” (AP), Ithaca Journal , September I, 1982.

5 - DYING DOWN UNDER

1. Graham Bell, “Agent Orange: ‘It Won’t Even Hurt Dumb Animals,’” Grifitti , student newspaper of Griffith University (Australia).

2. John Dux and P. J. Young, Agent Orange: The Bitter Harvest (Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980), p. 67.

3. Ibid., p. 63.

4. Ibid., p. 131.

6 - STONEWALL

1. Statement of the National Veterans Law Center before the Subcommittee on Medical Facilities and Benefits of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US House of Representatives, July 22, 1980.

2. Ibid., p. 6.

3. Ibid.

4. Report by the comptroller general of the United States, “Health Effects of Exposure to Herbicide Orange in South Vietnam Should Be Resolved,” April 6, 1979, p. 12.

5. Ibid., p. 6.

6. Statement of the National Veterans Law Center, p. 14.

7. Ibid., p. 16.

8. Ibid., p. 16–18.

9. Testimony of Philip Handler, president, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, Washington, D.C., before the Subcommittee on Medical Facilities and Benefits of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US House of Representatives, September 16, 1980.

10. Ibid.

11. Seymour M. Hersh,

Chemical and Biological Warfare: America’s Hidden Arsenal

(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), pp. 153–54.

12. Statement of William J. Jacoby Jr., MD, deputy chief medical director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US House of Representatives, May 6, 1981, pp. A-3-A-4.

13. Public Hearings, New York State Temporary Commission on Dioxin Exposure, Farmingdale, New York, June 20, 1981.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. Statement of Max Cleland, administrator of veterans’ affairs, before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US Senate, February 21, 1980.

17. Statement of the National Veterans Law Center, p, 22.

18. Ibid., p. 24.

19. New York Times , August 18, 1981.

20. The American Legion , January 1982, p. 7.

21. Ibid.

22. Washington Post , November 19, 1981.

23. “Vets Told Agent Orange Decision Is Years Away,” Ithaca Journal , September 1, 1982.

24. Ibid.

25. “VA Turns over Agent Orange Study to HHS Unit,” Washington Post , October 15, 1982.

7 - WHEN YOU CAN’T SUE THE GOVERNMENT THAT KILLS YOU

1. Karen J. Payne, “Beyond Vietnam, Beyond Politics, Beyond Causes…,” Barrister , Spring 1979.

2. Victor J. Yannacone, W. Keith Kavenagh, and Margie T. Searcy, “Agent Orange Litigation: Cooperation for Victory,” Trial , February 1982.

3. Ibid.

4. Victor J. Yannacone, W. Keith Kavenagh, and Margie T. Searcy, “Dioxin, Molecule of Death,” Trial , December 1981.

5. Victor J. Yannacone et al., “Agent Orange Litigation: Cooperation for Victory,” Trial , February 1982.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8 - CASUALTY REPORT

1. Direct testimony of Dr. Michael L. Gross before the administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency.

2. Ibid.

9 - HUMANS, RATS, AND LESSER BEINGS

1. Matthew Meselson, interview with filmmaker Daniel Keller, February 26, 1981.

2. Federal Register, “Emergency Suspension Order for 2,4,5-T and Silvex” 15874–15920, March 15, 1979.

3. Drs. Ton That Tung, Ton Duc Lang, and Do Duc Van (Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam), “The Mutagenacity of Dioxin and Its Effects on Reproduction among Exposed War Veterans,” unpublished paper.

4. David Kriebel, “The Dioxins’ Genetic Risks,” Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, August 1979.

5. Statement of Dr. Steven D. Stellman, assistant vice president for epidemiology, American Cancer Society, before the Subcommittee on Veteran’s Affairs, US House of Representatives, July 22, 1980.

6. Testimony of Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center, before the Subcommittee on Medical Facilities and Benefits of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US House of Representatives, July 22, 1980.

7. L. Hardell and A. Sandstrom, British Journal of Cancer , Vol. 39 (1971), p. 711.

8. O. Axelson et al., Läkartidningen , Vol. 76 (1979), p. 3505.

9. M. Eriksson et al., Läkartidningen , Vol. 76 (1979), p. 3872.

10. A. M. Thiess and Frentzel-Beyme, “Mortality of Persons Exposed to Dioxin after an Accident Which Occurred in the BASF on the 13th of November, 1953,” Medichemen Congress, University of San Francisco, September 5–9, 1977.

11. M. Eriksson et al., “Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Exposure to Chemical Substances: A Case-Referent Study,” British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol . 38 (1981), pp. 27–33.

12. Thomas Whiteside, The Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud: The Course of Dioxin Contamination (New Haven and London: Yale University Press), 1979, pp. 38–39.

13. Ibid., pp. 116–17.

14. Ibid., p. 120.

15. Ibid., pp. 120–21.

16. Ibid., p. 124.

17. Ibid., pp. 74–75.

18. Statement of Robert O. Muller, executive director, Vietnam Veterans of America, before the Subcommittee on Medical Facilities and Benefits of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US House of Representatives, July 22, 1980.

19. Sierra Club presentation, WIXT, June 27, 1980.

20. Statement of Dr. Jeanne M. Stellman, associate professor of public health, Division of Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, before the Subcommittee on Medical Facilities and Benefits of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US House of Representatives, July 22, 1980.

10 - THE VIETNAMIZATION OF AMERICA

1. “The Globe Incident: 1969–81,” New Times , June 3–9, 1981.

2. “Herbicide Concerns: A Basic Introduction,” Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP), P.O. Box 375, Eugene, Oregon 97440.

3. Jack Anderson, Washington Post , April 24, 1978.

4. Phil Keisling, “The Praying of Oregon,” Willamette Week , December 31, 1979.

5. NCAP Staff, “The Saga of 2,4,5-T,” NCAP News , Fall-Winter 1981–82.

6. Philadelphia Inquirer , October 31, 1982.

7. “Herbicide Information Packet,” Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP), p. 65.

8. Ibid., pp. 66–67.

9. Ibid., pp. 67–68.

10. Paul Merrell, “IBT Officials Indicted for Fraud,” NCAP News , Spring–Summer 1981.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FRED A. WILCOX has been a scholar on the Vietnam War for the past thirty years. He has published numerous articles and made several media appearances as a trusted authority on the war and its aftereffects. He teaches at Ithaca College.