Editing Agent Orange (section)

====U.S veterans====
U.S. Veterans began to file claims in 1977 to the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|Department of Veterans Affairs]] for disability payments for health care for conditions they believed were associated with exposure to Agent Orange, or more specifically, dioxin, but their claims were denied unless they could prove the condition began when they were in the service or within one year of their discharge.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43790.pdf |title=Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange: Legislative History, Litigation, and Current Issues |last1=Sidath |first1=Viranga Panangala |last2=Shedd |first2=Daniel |date=November 18, 2014 |publisher=Congressional Research Service |id=R43790 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321170713/https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43790.pdf |archive-date=March 21, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In order to qualify for compensation, U.S. veterans must have served on or near the perimeters of military bases in Thailand during the Vietnam Era, where herbicides were tested and stored outside of Vietnam, veterans who were crew members on C-123 planes flown after the Vietnam War, or were associated with Department of Defense (DoD) projects to test, dispose of, or store herbicides in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/claims-postservice-agent_orange.asp |title=Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange |date=January 19, 2018 |publisher=United States Department of Veterans Affairs |access-date=February 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203125103/https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/claims-postservice-agent_orange.asp |archive-date=February 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

By April 1993, the Department of Veterans Affairs had compensated only 486 victims, although it had received disability claims from 39,419 soldiers who had been exposed to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fleischer |first1=Doris Zames |last2=Zames |first2=Freida |title=The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation |publisher=Temple University Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-56639-812-1 |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3t84d8tLEVcC&pg=PA178 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228092239/https://books.google.com/books?id=3t84d8tLEVcC&pg=PA178 |archive-date=2017-02-28 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In a November 2004 [[Zogby International]] poll of 987 people, 79% of respondents thought the U.S. chemical companies which produced Agent Orange defoliant should compensate U.S. soldiers who were affected by the toxic chemical used during the war in Vietnam and 51% said they supported compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vietnamembassy-usa.org/relations/most-americans-favor-compensation-agent-orange-victims |first=Ha |last=Nguyen |title=Most Americans favor compensation for Agent Orange victims |publisher=Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the United States |date=November 19, 2004 |access-date=2017-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331115923/http://vietnamembassy-usa.org/relations/most-americans-favor-compensation-agent-orange-victims|archive-date=March 31, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>