Email: Phạm Trương,

Trưởng Ban Đối ngoại, VAVA

Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA)

Add: 35 Ho Me Tri Street | Thanh Xuan District | Hanoi | Vietnam

Tel: +844-62 65 26 65 | Fax: +844- 62 65 26 43

Email: doingoaivava@gmail.com | Website I Facebook

Nguyễn Thị Phương Tần, Physician, Assistant Chairperson, Ho Chi Minh City Association For Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin, December 19, 2019 interview by Brian Roesch, with interpreter.

President Joe Biden, Inauguration speech. CNN (20 January, 2021), Watch President Joe Biden's full inauguration speech. Youtube, 12:05–12:24 of 21:24.

Professor Cornel West (21 January, 2021). The Work Continues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdFpDz6jNQ, 4:22–4:31, 7:07–7:17 of 22:17

Suel Jones, US Marine, Viet Nam veteran. Podcast transcript and podcast, Veterans for Peace Chapter 160, https://vfp160.org/podcast-suel-jones/

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Phương, Physician. Hội Nạn Nhân Chất Độc Da Cam/Dioxin TP. Hồ Chí Minh (2017). Hậu Quả Chất Độc Da Cam/Dioxin Trong Chiến Tranh Việt Nam. TP. Hồ Chí Minh: NXB Tổng Hợp TP. Hồ Chí Minh, pp. 6, 27, 306.

Prof.essor Noam Chomsky — U.S. Interest in Vietnam, New York, 1968. Tannhauser 108, Jul 14, 2013       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsNOEfDrNw, 15:45–15:56, 17:24–17:44 of 17:50.

Oliver Stone. Viet Nam veteran, Academy Award winner for movie, Platoon. WGA West (2017, Feb. 20). James Woods presents the 2017 Writers Guild Laurel Award for Screenwriting to Oliver Stone. Youtube, 9:50–12:20 of 12:25.

Ông Brian Roesch thân mến, Dear Mr. Brian Roesch, Nov 4, 2021

Currently, we do not have accurate data, because the child mortality rate of Agent Orange victims is very high, so the current estimate is 150,000 children of Agent Orange victims.

Hiện nay, chúng tôi chưa có số liệu chính xác, vì tỉ lệ chết ở trẻ em nạn nhân chất độc da cam rất cao do đó con số ước tính hiện tại là 150,000 trẻ em nạn nhân chất độc da cam.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to write to us.

Nếu có gì cần hỏi thêm, xin ông không ngần ngại viết cho chúng tôi.

Sincerely, Pham Truong, Head of External Relations Department, VAVA

Trân trọng, Phạm Trương, Trưởng Ban Đối ngoại, VAVA

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Viet Nam in 2019 has about 1 million disabled dioxin victims.

What are the common objects we as Americans love? I think we know. That define us as Americans. I think we know. Opportunity. Security. Liberty. Dignity. Respect. Honor. And yes, the Truth.

There’s a rot in the system. And the rot is corporate greed and Pentagon militarism. . . . with the corporate duopoly of the two parties. You got the Republican Party, you got the Democratic Party, both of them tied to corporate greed, both of them tied to Pentagon militarism.

We are going to have to get back to being a caring country or we’re going to die. It’s that simple. And the young people, I think, are scared enough to understand we must make major changes really, really fast.

This fight to claim justice for victims of Agent Orange; the support of close international friends in this fight to claim enduring justice. . . .Viet Nam has about 3 million dioxin victims, from mild to severe.

[1968] “American power is in fact so overwhelming that there is no on in the world who can call us to account. The responsibility to do so lies on us as American citizens, on us, and on us alone. . . . to save our own country from becoming an object of hatred and contempt for civilized mankind. This, I think, is the problem that we face today, that we should be thinking about at what is a critical and what may be a desperate moment in American history.”  

In the 13 wars we’ve started over the past 30 years. . . . call it what you will—the military-industrial-security-money-media complex—it’s a system that has been perpetuated under the guise that these are just wars . . . but in the name of that wealth, we cannot justify our system as a center for the world’s values, when we continue to create such war and chaos in the world. . . .

Joseph Stiglitz, economist, Nobel Prize winner, (2019). People, Power, and Profits : Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent. NY : W.W. Norton & Company, p. 266, Kindle location 4386.

“. . . 99.9 percent of all scientists are convinced about climate change. . . .”