These two articles stayed with me overnight … and as I asked myself ….
Have some government(s) released a new strain of agent orange again???
And just the search to understand what the agent orange was … I learned for the first time a few more specifics of evils associated with a country’s governing divisions …
And it absolutely sickened me to sorrowful tears … *********
H17-year-old Nguyen Thi Hue, who is blind, with her mother. Photograph by James Nachtwey.View Nachtwey’s photo essay on Agent Orange.HERE Oct 14, 2011...Her story has led health experts to question what could have triggered her rapid aging as pictures show Phuong looking like two different people. Mrs
HERE Caption: Ho_Chi_Minh_City, Vietnam – 13 Dec 2004. Babies stillborn with deformities suspected from Agent Orange kept in jars of formaldehyde at Tu Du (Freedom) Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.\\\\Last year, Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange launched a lawsuit against over 30 US chemical firms that produced the herbicide for the US military during the Vietnam War. After hearing arguments from both sides on February 28, 2005, a New York district court will decide whether to proceed to trial. Although no link has ever been proven between Agent Orange and any illness, there are consistently high rates of cancer and congenital birth defects in areas heavily sprayed by the defoliant during the war. In 1985, a settlement of $180 million was agreed between the chemical companies and US veterans who had developed diseases linked to Agent Orange exposure.
$180 million is about 1% of what should have been paid.