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Waiting for an Army to Die by Fred A. Wilcox

Waiting for an Army to Die

The Tragedy of Agent Orange

The Tragedy of Agent Orange

By Fred A. Wilcox

By Fred A. Wilcox

By Fred A. Wilcox

By Fred A. Wilcox

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    About Waiting for an Army to Die

    “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.

    About Waiting for an Army to Die

    “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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    About Fred A. Wilcox

    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… More about Fred A. Wilcox

    About Fred A. Wilcox

    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… More about Fred A. Wilcox

    Product Details

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Sep 13, 2011 | 240 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781609801366

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Sep 13, 2011 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781609803391

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    Praise

    “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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    1 Ketchup and Water, 2 The Doomed Platoon, 3 Seals and River Rats, 4 A Maimed Generation, 5 Dying Down Under, 6 Stonewall, 7 When You Can’t Sue the Government That Kills You, 8 Casualty Report, 9 Humans, Rats, and Lesser Beings, 10 The Vietnamization of America, 11 Vietnam Veterams Are America’s Future

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