https://briandroesch.com/teachers daily 0.75 2025-10-27 https://briandroesch.com/teachers/2021/6/24/truth-tuesdays-weekly-blog-the-viet-nam-war-in-its-relation-to-today monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://briandroesch.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/1603143864720-RY0FS1TS1DQBNWHMNTPW/36%2BAuthor%2Bheli%2Bpilot%2Bcirca%2B1973.jpg The Author Author helicopter pilot circa 1973 https://briandroesch.com/get-in-touch daily 0.75 2025-04-21 https://briandroesch.com/current-areas daily 0.75 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/deffce63-dff7-4a88-9f3d-883afa495852/DSC_7624+Agent+Orange+victim+4+4+2021+daniel.jpg Current Areas - Make it stand out In 2021, this young victime of Agent Orange/dioxin lies in his mother’s lap, as she sells by a roadside in Viet Nam. Many such victims require continual care, and their families live in poverty. https://briandroesch.com/agent-orange-dioxin daily 0.75 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/ceeb22b4-d8c7-4895-80fb-ae7b0a984b5d/AO+150K+cs+birth+def+2021.jpg Agent Orange/Dioxin - Make it stand out Approximately 150,000 children with birth defects. [1] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/404505f4-3a40-4d22-93ad-ef14e2e9fa84/Dioxin+Victims+Chairman+Tho+and+some+victims.jpg Agent Orange/Dioxin - Make it stand out In 2016, young dioxin victims and General Tho, head of Viet Nam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin, Ho Chi Minh City. He writes to US public: “to apply basic fairness to help them attain a higher quality of life. . . .” https://briandroesch.com/welcome daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/7ad8cf4f-f4f3-4cf4-8338-27fa81dd7ed3/Niger_Army_2007+Cropped+Photo+jpg+-+Copy.jpg Welcome - Make it stand out Photo 1. After a century of US business expansion by force in Viet Nam 1865–1975, US leaders have pursued a similar practice worldwide. This 2007 photo shows the US training soldiers in Niger. US “security” enabled US ally France to take Niger uranium while paying Niger only 1/250 of the value. Much of Niger lived in poverty. In 2024, Niger kicked the US out. Public domain photo 2007, Wikipedia: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Larson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/066c7057-5824-4a92-827b-877729b72f84/rice+field+workers+by+kieran+2021.jpg Welcome - Make it stand out Photo 2. From 1865 onward, much of Viet Nam’s rice was stolen by French colonials and sent overseas, some on US ships. The stolen rice supported growth of the French and US economies. Widespread malnutrition struck Viet Nam in the 1880s. It lasted through the entire colonial period. Photo by Kieran Barry (2021). https://briandroesch.com/culture daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/1610243896253-6U91OWSE8DUUGZ80DHVY/image+VN+Thien+Duong.jpg Culture Việt Nam countryside way of life, a slice of paradise, artist impression in oil painting. by artist Trần Ngọc Tùng, Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/6ccfd25c-4b6e-408f-ae96-0961627f8723/7%252BHome%252Baltar%252Bto%252Bspirits%252Bof%252Bnature%252B2018.jpg Culture A family’s altar in 2018 to the Spirit of Earth. Other ordinary items in photo show that the altar is in a place used in daily life. Photograph 2018 by Brian D. Roesch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/1615067428536-SUU1SAQ198KRBLHD7XP4/Rice+Fields2b+Transplanting+btlsqg+15Jan%2B2018+-+Copy.jpg Culture Ancient writings on rice cultivation. National Museum of History, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/1611374789905-E4KETZWL80GGO5S7G2Y4/Rice+fields+S+delta+KieranBarry+18+Jan+2021.jpg Culture Transplanting rice, Nine Dragons River Delta (Mekong Delta) 17 January, 2021, photo by Kieran Barry https://briandroesch.com/history daily 0.75 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5929de9a197aea285800f210/1603265087610-MBFPTK3553DEGFF5YDYP/1+Drumhead+Festivals+BTLSQG+MAH01782+1293+-+Copy.jpg History Replica of head of 2,500-year-old bronze drum excavated at Ngoc Lu site of Dong Son civilization. The concentric circles show rice agriculture, religious-cultural festivals, and the way of life close to nature. Drumhead in National Museum of History, Ha Noi. Photograph by author. https://briandroesch.com/quotes daily 0.75 2025-11-14 https://briandroesch.com/voter-knowledge daily 0.75 2025-05-22