Do you think the Vietnam War is over?

I work as hospice chaplain and based by on my experience of talking with Vietnam vets, I think the answer is no.

The war carries on every day claiming casualties. The very sad thing is the ill effects of AO were known at the time it was used. Just awful. The VA battling against recognizing the health effects of AO is one of America's great shames. Gulf War Syndrome is right up there with AO.

Unfortunately it is not over for the veterans who are suffering from the initial exposure, it is continuing in their proginy. There hasn't been enough evidence to support Agent Orange parental exposure passing on to the next generation, although the VA benefits have been used to care for children with most tupes spina bifida as well as a few other other birth defects. Check out these articals:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK356077/
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/benefits/children-birth-defects.asp

I recently saw some sad facts - out of 2.6 million military who served in Viet Nam, over 1.8 million are dead. The average life expectancy of a WW2 vet is 82, the average for a Viet Nam vet is 65. AO has been determined to cause uncounted casualties with our spouses, children, children's children and down even further. What has the economic loss to our country been? I put together numbers for other aspects of this issue, and the numbers are staggering. AO, as determined by the VA, is only counted if you were in-country and very few other selected areas, when in fact various derivatives were used on many military bases. We flew on contaminated aircraft where the orange stuff on the walls was not hydraulic fluid. I saw references to it being used at Fort Polk, our Stateside jungle warfare course, then those very same references being made to disappear. There is a case where a retired NCO from Ft Bragg testified to using it at Bragg.
Our current veterans have very similar issues from agents developed by parts of our government and tested on us that created more issues - and then those agents were weaponized and given to Iraq where we blundered into them many moons later - and now the gift that keeps giving has morphed into another form and is doing the same to our younger brothers and sisters and their families.
The Vietnamese have been dealing with this horror for decades. These are crimes against humanity not readily frittered away by the "exigencies of war". The article cited below says the Viet Nam Red Cross estimates 3 million Vietnamese were impacted, with at least 150,000 children born with serious defects.
Captain John Parker, elected CO of the 77 Lexington militia members who were tradesmen and farmers at Lexington, died 5 months later from tuberculosis. This reinforced platoon, or a depleted company, stood up to make right the wrongs of the British rule. Captain Parker, who knew he was dying, pledged his life, as we all did. We need to likewise stand up to the tyranny of stupidity and greed that now permeates our beloved country and is destroying it from within. Everyone who wears a US flag or pin, or who swore an oath to the Constitution, needs to stand up and do what is right under the law and do it by working together - not recreating the Civil War we have in Congress today.
Happy 4th to all - now go out and honor the memory and affirm the spirit exuded by that original band of 77 brothers who said "enough"!

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24751351.html

Until the last Vietnam Veteran has passed away AND the last MIA is brought home, the Vietnam War will never be over. The very same can be said about every war before and since.

Not until the U.S. acknowledges agent orange exposures continues to kill.

Until the last combatant is gone, no war will ever be over. Though some carry the weight of their war more than others; this I don't doubt.

I seems to be in so in Viet Nam. I was there a year ago and had no problems. Camps Eagle and Evans are just patches of ground. Phu Bai is nada except a runway or two and some rundown buildings. Hue - my old stomping groungs - is a happening place.
On the other hand, for America it still seems a bitter experience. We didn't get squat when we got home and the DoD and VA screwed many of our comrades, not to mention the civilians. Take up meditation, brothers.

I tell folks that I was killed in Vietnam; I just haven't died yet. I have two types of heart disease and diabetes type 2, all attributed to herbicide exposure. I'm 100% disabled by the VA. I fought with them for 11 years before I got that level of disability. I know of many people who served in Southeast Asia who still haven't received the benefits they earned by their service. And I know of many people who died without those benefits. Our country should be ashamed of the way these patriots were treated by the VA.

no it's not over. I know a lot of Vietnam vets that suffer from a verity of conditions and most are life treating. and some have a hard time dealing with them. One man I know it took over 20 years to get his disability to 100% he had cancer of the colon and had it removed. and that's just one out of many. I know