Inside the push for Agent Orange victims memorial in small-town Utah

Former Air Force Sgt. Larry Kerr has been lobbying for years to come up with a plan to honor the Vietnam veterans who developed cancers and other related diseases from exposure to the Agent Orange defoliant that their leaders, and what was then the Veterans Administration, claimed was safe.

“I just got tired of watching my friends die” without recognition, Kerr said of what drove him two…