Agent Orange being sprayed over Vietnam
Agent Orange is a herbicide designed by Monsanto. Monsanto, admitting a mistake in chemistry, created a component of the herbicide:known as Dioxin. Dioxin has a very long half life and is one of the deadliest substances per volume known to man. Better living through chemistry, they say. Agent Orange was named for the color of the canister holding the defoliating agent. Before Agent Orange there was Agent Blue.
As the map shows Agent Orange was sprayed over a good part of Vietnam to defoliate the jungle and brush to expose the enemy. By 1971 about 12% of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals. Not only did we spoil the Vietnam country side, cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and birth defects; we damaged Vietnam Veterans who had crawled through it and dug fox holes in it.
As the map shows Agent Orange was sprayed over a good part of Vietnam to defoliate the jungle and brush to expose the enemy. By 1971 about 12% of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals. Not only did we spoil the Vietnam country side, cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and birth defects; we damaged Vietnam Veterans who had crawled through it and dug fox holes in it.
There are a number of conditions caused by Agent Orange. For the listed conditions the Veteran's Adminstration will presume that the condition was caused by exposure to Agent Orange and thus fast track the Veteran through the system. This process assumes that the vet was actually "in-country" with some exceptions.
On the plus side the US has started a multimillion dollar initiative in 2012 to begin to decontaminate the Dioxin hot spots in Vietnam. It is a beginnig.
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On the plus side the US has started a multimillion dollar initiative in 2012 to begin to decontaminate the Dioxin hot spots in Vietnam. It is a beginnig.
www.ahellishplaceofangels.com
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