{"id":8836,"date":"2011-05-23T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:26:23","slug":"vet-blows-whistle-on-burial-of-agent-orange-in-korea-we-basically-buried-our-garbage-in-their-back-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8836","title":{"rendered":"Vet blows whistle on burial of Agent Orange in Korea: &#8220;We basically buried our garbage in their back yard.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/local-video\/index.html?grabnetworks_video_id=4694889\">Watch the video<\/a> of several U.S. veterans blowing the whistle on burial of Agent Orange at a base in South Korea in 1978.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u02bbs an excerpt from the transcript:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div>\n<div>Related To Story<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"240\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/image\/27892736\/detail.html\"><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/images\/structures\/buttons\/button_enlarge.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"15\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image27892736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/2011\/0514\/27892736_240X165.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Valley Veteran Blows Whistle On Burial Of Agent Orange<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Steve House, 2 Others Say They Just Followed Orders In 1978<\/h2>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Tammy Leitner, KPHO CBS 5 News<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">POSTED: 7:46 pm MST May 13, 2011<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">UPDATED: 11:37 am MST May 16, 2011<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>PHOENIX &#8212; <\/strong>It&#8217;s  a secret the military does not want you to know &#8212; something so  dangerous that a Valley man says it&#8217;s slowly killing him and could be  poisoning countless others.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Yeah, it haunts me,&#8221; said veteran Steve House. &#8220;We basically buried our garbage in their back yard.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The  year was 1978. Spc. Steve House was stationed at Camp Carroll in South  Korea. He worked as a heavy equipment operator, and one day, says he got  orders to dig a ditch &#8211; nearly the length of a city block.<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: red;\">VIDEO:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/local-video\/index.html?grabnetworks_video_id=4694889\" target=\"_blank\">Military Code Broken After 30 Years of Toxic Waste<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;They just told us it was going to be used for disposal,&#8221; said House.But it was what House buried that he&#8217;s never been able to forget.&#8221;Fifty-five gallon drums with bright yellow, some of them bright orange, writing on them,&#8221; said House. &#8220;And some of the cans said Province of Vietnam, Compound Orange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Compound Orange, also known as Agent Orange, is a  toxic herbicide that was used to wipe out the jungles during the  Vietnam war. The military also admitted using it years later around  demilitarized zones in Korea. The government says the leftover Agent  Orange was incinerated at sea.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/news\/27892124\/detail.html\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div>US Forces Korea issued the following statement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfk.mil\/usfk\/showarticle.aspx?id=810&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\">http:\/\/www.usfk.mil\/usfk\/showarticle.aspx?id=810&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 <\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After a preliminary investigation, the military issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfk.mil\/USFK\/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=812\">another statement<\/a> admitting that chemicals were buried, but claiming that they were removed and cleaned up:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to Johnson, a 1992 study by the Army Corps of Engineers  indicated that a large number of drums containing chemicals, pesticides,  herbicides and solvents were buried in the vicinity of the area  identified by the former Soldiers in news reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some data from this report was shared with ROK Government officials  during a site visit to Camp Carroll on Saturday.\u00a0 The study was a  general environment assessment and did not specifically identify Agent  Orange.\u00a0 More data will be provided to the ROK Ministry of the  Environment representative during a visit to Camp Carroll today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The study further stated that these materials and 40-60 tons of soil  were subsequently removed from the site in 1979-1980 and disposed of  offsite.\u00a0 Eighth Army officials are still trying to determine why the  materials were buried and how it was disposed after it was excavated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Subsequent testing in 2004 included using ground-penetrating radar  and boring 13 test holes on and around the site.\u00a0 Samples from 12 of the  holes had no dioxin present.\u00a0 The thirteenth hole revealed trace  amounts of the chemical, but the amount was deemed to be no hazard to  human health.<\/p>\n<p>This is becoming a huge issue in Korea.\u00a0\u00a0 Stay tuned to see what unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8833\">University of Hawai\u02bbi had a hand<\/a> in the development of Agent Orange via agricultural research programs.\u00a0 Two UH employees who worked with the chemicals got cancer, but could not win compensation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video of several U.S. veterans blowing the whistle on burial of Agent Orange at a base in South Korea in 1978.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u02bbs an excerpt from the transcript: Related To Story Valley Veteran Blows Whistle On Burial Of Agent Orange Steve House, 2 Others Say They Just Followed Orders In 1978 Tammy Leitner, KPHO &hellip; 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