Le Quang Chon
Trinh Nga Hamlet, Hoang Trinh Commune
Hoang Hoa District, Thanh Hoa Province
Viet Nam

Professor Kenneth Herrmann
Director of the SUNY Brockport Vietnam Program

I am Le Quang Chon. I am 54 years old.

I would like to present my family's circumstances.

I joined the Vietnamese People's Army and fought at the Tay Nguyen Battlefield for national independence.

I have been infected with Agent Orange used by the U.S Army in Viet Nam. In consequence of this, my wife has had three monsters in three pregnancies followed by three disabled children:

- Le Thi Thoa: Congenitally amputated.
- Le Quang Chien: disabled and deformed.
- Le Quang Chuong: disabled left leg (cannot move).

The photos of our three children are attached to this letter.

For me, I have been infected directly with Agent Orange: poor eyesight, losing most of my lower jaw's teeth, 2 loose teeth, often getting ill, gastrectomy of 3/4 of stomach, gangrene of 40 cm of intestine, rheumatic limbs, neurasthenia.

My wife is in panic when seeing such husband and children. Therefore, she gets mental disease. Sometimes, she does not know what she is doing. My family has too many difficulties in both material and spiritual life. My family's members have suffered from the effects of the Agent Orange. Therefore, we have to speak up in order that the world people know the Agent Orange victims' losses, caused by the American Imperialists.

Yours,

Le Quang Chon

trans. Nguyen Thi My Hoa