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I read Waiting for an Army to Die when it first came out and again a few years ago. I look forward to this updated version. I am now reading Scorched Earth and am appalled by the facts Fred A. Wilcox brings to light. As your writer says, both of these books should be required reading. Wilcox makes it painfully clear that we are indeed all expendable as far as our government and the corporations it serves are concerned. Not only Agent Orange, but all sorts of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic chemicals are part of our daily lives. The great tragedy here -- there are many tragedies here, actually, but the greatest -- is that the Vietnamese people and all of us are being used as fodder for the chemical corporations in collusion with a corrupt state, and an ever-ascending military, as well as the codependent judiciary that supports what is in essence genocide. How can we continue to allow such vicious and violently inhumane actions in our name? It's suicide as well as homicide. Thanks to Rebekah Wilce for a fine review, to Brendan Wilcox for the touching and telling photos, and to Fred A. Wilcox for two fine and very disturbing books -- that should be read by every legislator and every citizen in the USA and Vietnam, and beyond.