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Santa Rosa Vietnam vet and advocate for Purple Heart recipients dies of Agent Orange-related illnesses.

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It was only weeks before his death last month that John Adrian Logan conceded his fight against disease that savaged his body as a result of exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

For decades, Logan had been aware of the likely potential for health problems caused by the chemical defoliant, which was widely used by the United States to deprive the enemy of food and forest cover.

When Logan was diagnosed with four types of cancer last year, he vowed to overcome them.

“I’m at peace with all of this,” he said last fall during an interview with The Press Democrat, in which he recounted disabling injuries from a bloody…



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