Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange

· Seven Stories Press
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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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A Google user
I am the recent widow of abused Vietnam Marine. Towards the end of his life and medical abuse by the Veterans Hospitals I felt like I was married to a gunny pig , he was so over medicated and neglected and denied proper care it made me sick than mad. He passed 11/29/2011 and is not suffering any more but the things I could tell should be told. Thank You For Caring and I too was a war protester not a soldier protester they were doing what our country was telling them to do. Bless You A Sad Broken Heated Widow War Never Ends t
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Fara Torimino
January 7, 2015
It hurts to know I too might die from this because I was affected by it . My father died at the age of 42 by the agent orange 3 major heart surgeries triple bypass an 4th one took him at that time we didn't know that agent orange took him . I'm now 33 an have many health problems. I pray I don't die from cancer .
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About the author

FRED A. WILCOX is a veteran’s advocate, environmentalist, and scholar of the Vietnam War. His book, Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange, helped break the story of the effects of chemical warfare on US veterans who had served in Vietnam. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, including the Chapel of the Four Chaplains Humanitarian Award, which was presented to him on two occasions by the Vientma Veterans of America. Wilcox lives in Ithaca, New York.

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