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Agent Orange continues to haunt lives of U.S. veterans trained in New Brunswick (cbc.ca)
submitted 2h ago by Portalrules123
ForeverSquirrelled42 40 points 1h ago
Agent orange is some nasty shit. A lot of people don’t know what it is or what it does to the body. I took care of a Vietnam vet that died of a rare blood dyscrasia caused by agent orange exposure. He was a SEAL with 6 deployments during the war. He died in a nursing home, screaming and thrashing about in his chair and bed for a month.
BenAfleksAnOkActor 1 points 16m ago
They sprayed that for 9 years before figuring out its bad for people?
ForeverSquirrelled42 1 points 14m ago
They didn’t care. The US and South Vietnamese were getting their asses handed to them and needed some way to “see” the enemy better.
Jampine 1 points 13m ago
More like they KNEW it was bad, but didn't care.

If you're spraying something to kill off the forest, it doesn't take a genius to figure it might not be good for human exposure too.

But if you're already carting off boys by the thousands to die for your bank balance, that's a few more hundred thousand deaths?
AVLThumper 61 points 1h ago
Good thing the Republicans are willing to pass legislation that helps veterans...oh wait, they don't really give a shit about the military, just military contracts to their donors.
vondpickle 1 points 1h ago
Even US veterans didn't get much help from US gov, then think what US gov done to the places they spread those AO.
BigSur33 1 points 23m ago
It's also genetic/hereditary, so you pass it on to your kids.
s1eep 1 points 30m ago
Yeah man. We could have been something so much better than this if we had ever tried.
JJNotStrike 1 points 12m ago
My grandfather has had lifelong health complications, including battling cancer, as a result of being a door gunner that flew over the dense jungles in Vietnam where Agent Orange was used. He has had to fight like hell to get help from the government/VA for his issues.

His brother, also a Vietnam Vet, died from health complications not too long ago that were determined to be from Agent Orange exposure.

This country has done a massive disservice to the men and women who put their lives on the line during the Vietnam era, when this usage was prevalent.
oh_shaw 1 points 1h ago
I thought this was about Trump (Agent Orange).
JohnWad 1 points 19m ago
Me too
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