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The Navy veteran who ended up changing the lives of 90,000 fellow sailors following a 2019 court decision over Agent Orange died at the Owatonna Hospital on Friday. Albert ‘Al’ Procopio Jr. died at the age of 75 early Friday morning of kidney failure after a decades-long battle with exposure to Agent Orange herbicide during his service in Vietnam. According to Procopio’s family, he was in the process of transitioning from his home in Ham Lake to an assisted living facility in Owatonna, where his son Joe Procopio and his family lives. “Al suffered for years from diabetes, l...

Gerry Wright said he felt so strongly about Vietnam veterans who were “sprayed and betrayed” that he took to the road after selling his businesses. In 2018, he drove an orange Honda Goldwing trike around the nation, gathering signatures on a petition to expand treatment for Agent Orange. And now, to raise awareness and honor all those who were exposed to the herbicide, Wright has spearheaded installation of a monument in his hometown.

NOTE: Photo gallery contains graphic images. In the 19 years since he served at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan, former Air Force Maj. Brian Liebenow has had at least two types of cancer, lost half his jaw to radiation damage, had one of his arms amputated and eats through a tube in his stomach. He is one of hundreds of veterans who have come down with cancer and other illnesses after serving at the former Soviet base, which the U.S. used between 2001 and 2005 to support the war effort in Afghanistan. Defense Department documents declassified last year show the Pentagon knew troops ...

Article A secondary section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the backcountry of Ta Oey District. Image by George Black. Laos, 2019. It was a blazing-hot morning in October 2019 on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, an intricate web of truck roads and secret paths that wove its way across the densely forested and mountainous border between Vietnam and Laos. Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people called Labeng-Khok, once the site of a logistics base inside Laos used by the North Vietnamese Army t...

EXCLUSIVE: 'They proudly served their country, but were breathing in toxic air that would kill them': Thousands of dead or dying US veterans were sickened by warzone burn pits - but the VA does NOTHING to help them, claim families US soldiers have reported that burn pits were used to incinerate all types of trash, including plastics, batteries, appliances, medicines, munitions, animal corpses and even human waste During the wars Afghanistan and Iraq, it is thought that more than 200 bases used open air burn pits, and they could burn for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year  One servicewoman descr...