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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Jungle Rain: The NZ Story of Agent Orange and the Vietnam War...

Vietnamese babies, deformed and stillborn afte...
Vietnamese babies, deformed and stillborn after prenatal dioxin exposure from Agent Orange (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: U.S. Huey helicopter spraying Agent O...
English: U.S. Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: U.S. Army armored personnel carrier (...
English: U.S. Army armored personnel carrier (APC) spraying Agent Orange during the Vietnam War (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You must watch this video. It is an eye-opener. The effects of Agent Orange are inter-generational - up to three generations involved in many cases. This is the NZ story, but the effects of Agent Orange have effected Australians, Americans and of course Vietnamese too. I lost a brother and brother in law who served in Vietnam with the NZ Army, the latter was a rifleman who fought in the jungle there.


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1 Comments:

At August 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM , Blogger Snowbird said...

How chilling, that made me recoil in horror. We don't learn though do we....xxxx

 

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