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    US government recognizes are related to Agent Orange, according to Truth-out.org. Many people refuse to believe that Agent Orange had any bad or harmful effect on the environment and on people. In my opinion, Agent Orange was a very deadly toxin, has had a very big and negative impact on both the environment in Vietnam and other countries around the world, and it has had a big and negative impact on people by causing diseases and disorders. Agent orange was a very deadly toxin. According to history

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    What is Agent Orange? A few people know about that in the modern world, it is not a combination of agent and orange, however, it is one kind of defoliants that used in the Vietnam War. To reduce the forest cover for Vietnam soldiers, the U.S. government didn’t care a lot about the consequences of this herbicide. 29 U.S. aircrafts sprayed this chemical at the peak in 1969. Actually, the use of Agent Orange is not ethical because of the serious health effects on innocent people and the government also

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    The Government Reaction to Agent Orange Claims PREFACE United States involvement in Vietnam has been surrounded by controversy since the 1960s. Many felt that controversy would end with the withdrawal of US troops in the 1970s. The troops came home and were not welcomed with the fanfare that surrounded veterans of previous wars. Was the controversy surrounding Vietnam a “dead” issue now that the troops were home? The answer is no. The controversy continues to this very day. The issue

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    “We were told, ‘it’s totally safe and it won’t hurt you at all,” he added. “We were told you can drink it, you can brush your teeth with it, or you can bathe in it. It won’t hurt you. Those were lies.” (“U.S. Soldiers Sprayed Agent Orange across Korea” 1) Agent Orange was an herbicide used by the United States military forces in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971 to destroy their enemies’ food supply, land, and protection. Twelve million gallons of this toxin were sprayed. (Department of Preventive Medicine

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    AGENT ORANGE RESEARCH ENDS Legislative Mandate Set to Expire, Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance Supports H.R. 3423 The Agent Orange Act of 1991 is the only legislative pathway to add ailments to the presumptive list of service connected illnesses for Vietnam Veterans. It is set to expire on September 30th, 2015. If the Act is allowed to expire comprehensive research reviews will end. Without continued research reviews, some Vietnam Veterans will never be covered for the ailments caused

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    Agent orange was very harmful to our troops, Vietnam’s environment and to the Vietnamese people. Between 1961 and 1972 there was a horrible spraying of a bunch of harmful chemicals joined to be called agent orange which killed off so many people and wildlife which, caused a lot of confusion to the US because they thought it was just going to cause the plants to die off instead of what it actually did. Agent orange was used during the Vietnam war as a non-harmful chemical but it turned out it was

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    Hazardous Chemical Project: Agent Orange and the Environment Agent Orange; a chemical that stopped the Vietnamese military’s advantage and improved the chances of the American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. For the Americans, it was a way to destroy the foliage that allowed the Vietnamese soldiers to move secretly through the brush and plot attacks. As it became increasingly difficult to find Vietnamese soldiers who used the environment to their advantage, the new chemical was developed

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    environment can create devastating health problems such as cancer in humans. This paper will evaluate three of the many carcinogenic chemicals that have the propensity to cause cancer and other health problems. Therefore, the paper will evaluate Agent Orange, DDT, and Benzene. In addition, the paper will discuss incidents relating to each respective chemical. Also depicted in this paper is the type of cancers caused by each chemical and other related health problems associated with each chemical

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    United States military dropped the herbicide Agent Orange on their landscape. Agent Orange is an extremely powerful herbicide that was used in the Vietnam War. The health risks outweigh the benefits greatly, as even today Vietnam still feels the affects of the terrible herbicide. There have been many research studies on this powerful herbicide to show the negative affects. During the Vietnam War, Vietnam was greatly affected by the herbicide Agent Orange, as it decimated their land, caused many diseases

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    chemical herbicide, known as Agent Orange, was made by the U.S. to poison their crops and starve the enemy troops. The highly potent Agent Orange created many unintended problems for the locals as well as the troops because of the catastrophic damages to the landscape and it continues to affect the locals to this day. For example, polluted crops and farm lands, Bio-accumulation of Agent orange, and chronic medical problems were all connected to the use of Agent orange. During the Vietnam war, the

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