Using a variety of defoliants, including Agent Orange, The U.S. Military intentionally targeted cultivated land, destroyed crops and disrupted rice production.

The American soldiers who sprayed the fields were promised that the chemicals would only be hurting plants, not people...but these soldiers didn't come home any better off than those they sprayed.

Vietnam Vets came home reporting unusual rates of lymphoma, leukemia, and cancer...especially those who had worked with Agent Orange.

The name Agent Orange refers to an orange stripe on each herbicide barrel rather than its ingredients.

During the 10-year campaign, U.S. aircraft targeted 4.5 million acres across 30 different provinces in the area below the 17th parallel and in the Mekong Delta...destroying inland hardwood forests and coastal swamps as they sprayed.

VIETNAM EFFECTS

Vietnam’s natural defenses were also destroyed.

Nearly 50% of the country’s mangroves...which protect shorelines from typhoons and tsunamis...were wiped out.

WHAT IS AGENT ORANGE?
Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the “tactical use” Rainbow Herbicides.

Agent Orange contained significant amounts of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, often called TCDD, a type of poisonous dioxin.

WHO PRODUCED AGENT ORANGE?
Dow Chemical and Monsanto.

Vietnamese people weren’t the only ones poisoned by Agent Orange.

U.S. soldiers, unaware of the dangers, sometimes showered in the empty 55-gallon drums.

They also used the barrels to store food and repurposed them as barbecue pits.

Then came the “damage control” campaign:

One popular comic strip featured a character named “Brother Nam” who explained:

“The only effect of defoliant is to kill trees and force leaves to wither, and normally does not cause harm to people, livestock, land, or the drinking water of our compatriots.”

So sad. My uncle recently died from cancer related to agent orange. He was in Vietnam.

Allegedly, chemical manufacturers had informed the U.S. military that Agent Orange was toxic, but spraying went forward anyway.

Monsanto and Dow Chemical, took the position that the governments involved in the war were solely responsible for paying out damages to Agent Orange victims.

Seriously?? YOU MADE IT!!

In 2004, a Vietnamese group unsuccessfully attempted to sue some 30 companies, alleging that the use of chemical weapons constituted a war crime.

The class action case was dismissed in 2005 by a district court in Brooklyn, New York.

☝️☝️☝️THESE
PEOPLE
NEED
TO
PAY
FOR
THEIR
CRIMES!!!

It affected the offspring of those soldiers too.

My husband grew up 1 mile from ft Derrick in md. They dumped leftover agent orange into watershed around base. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
My husband has had two different rare cancers and both are on the list of AO cancers. In fact the whole area appears to be a cancer cluster. a class action lawsuit by families in area was lost to the US Army. 🤬🤬🤬🤬