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Costs soar for compensating veterans with mental disorders

August 22, 2021 at 9:51 p.m.

Corey Gibson's right leg bounces when he sits. At 29 he sleeps fitfully, with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle mounted above his bed. "That's my sense of security," he says. Laurie...

Costs soar for compensating veterans with mental disorders

May 13, 2019 at 3:53 p.m.

Corey Gibson's right leg bounces when he sits. At 29 he sleeps fitfully, with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle mounted above his bed. "That's my sense of security," he says. Laurie...

VA laboring under surge of wounded veterans

June 18, 2018 at 2:00 a.m.

In a sobering reminder of the long-term costs of war, a dramatic spike in disability claims during the last seven years has overwhelmed the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and...

Before-and-after air views show the effects herbicides had when sprayed in Vietnam during the war. Above is an unsprayed mangrove forest, date unknown, and the bottom image is of the same area in 1970. It was sprayed in 1965.

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be

June 18, 2018 at 11:01 p.m.

Part 5 of a Tribune investigation unearths documents showing that decisions by the U.S. military and chemical companies that manufactured the defoliants used in Vietnam made the spraying more dangerous...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be

May 13, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

Part 5 of a Tribune investigation unearths documents showing that decisions by the U.S. military and chemical companies that manufactured the defoliants used in Vietnam made the spraying more dangerous...

A U.S. Army soldier presents a folded U.S. flag to Christina Cooley at the memorial service in Evanston's Sheil Chapel for her father, Jack Cooley. Exposed to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam, he died in July of multiple myeloma. At right is Christina's brother, John.

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: For Vietnam War veterans, injustice follows injury

June 18, 2018 at 11:02 p.m.

Part 2 of a Tribune investigation finds that for many U.S. veterans, the bureaucratic fight to be compensated for health problems linked to Agent Orange amounts to a new and...

Vietnam veteran Ted Hutches poses at his boyhood home in Shreveport, La. Hutches receives disability payments because of illnesses linked to his wartime exposure to herbicides. His two daughters also suffer from health problems the family believes are related.

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: The next generation

June 17, 2018 at 8:43 p.m.

Ted Hutches is hobbled by leg-swelling cellulitis, cancer and nerve disorders that have left his hands and feet numb and prevented him from working for the past 30 of his...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: The next generation

May 13, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

Ted Hutches is hobbled by leg-swelling cellulitis, cancer and nerve disorders that have left his hands and feet numb and prevented him from working for the past 30 of his...

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: For Vietnam War veterans, injustice follows injury

May 13, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Part 2 of a Tribune investigation finds that for many U.S. veterans, the bureaucratic fight to be compensated for health problems linked to Agent Orange amounts to a new and...

Do Thi Hang, 19, experiences a seizure as her father Do Duc Diu, 58, tries to keep her from injuring herself. Hang suffers from frequent seizures as a result of fluid that accumulates in her brain, which has been linked to her father's exposure to Agent Orange.

Agent Orange’s lethal legacy: For U.S., a record of neglect

August 18, 2019 at 5:57 p.m.

Part 1 of a Tribune investigation finds that U.S. officials have neglected a lasting problem even as the health fallout has spread. Complete coverage >> In central Indiana, two sisters...

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