Agent Orange: The Banned Weapon That Followed Soldiers Home

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  @Peachypakiri627 · 8 months ago

  I’m an in home senior caregiver and I’ve had a client who was exposed to AO. He was a lifelong marine that retired in his 60’s but with severe health issues. He had tremors so violent he could not walk, developed a stutter and would pause and look into space while speaking before carrying on, he developed epilepsy, and his wife had two still births with severe birth defects and several miscarriages before they stopped trying. He was in his 80’s when I met him and told me how much he regretted his service and how horrible he felt for the people of Vietnam and what we did to them.

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  @RandomSime · 8 months ago

  I went to uni in Australia in the early 2000s. There was a girl in one of my classes who said her dad was a pilot that sprayed agent orange. I asked her if her family was affected by it and said, "I dunno, but I've got..." and listed half a dozen minor deformities and sensitivities.

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  @JustKrista50 · 8 months ago

  My step Dad got tumors in his hands from this. He spent decades fighting the VA to help him. They claimed forever that it wasn&apos;t cancerous. Then, they refused to pay for %100 care these people needed. He fought literally for the rest of his life. They finally granted him full Vet disability, months before he passed away.<br>The government doesn&apos;t care for it&apos;s soldiers

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  @ragingprimate420 · 4 months ago

  99.999999% of the time, a court of law will find you guilty of murder if you kill someone. Yet they commit genocide and all of a sudden &quot;it was an accident&quot;

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  @squishii3 · 8 months ago (edited)

  Everyone and everybody is talking about their dads or someone they know that was affected by it, but only some are talking about how generations of children born after the war in Vietnam are affected by this left in orphanage because their families can not afford the care for them. Tens of thousands of children are still born with malformities (deformed head, no eyes/nose, no limbs, missing vital internal organs).

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  @jkhkitty · 8 months ago

  What ive learned from into the shadows: <br>1. Dont trust your government <br>2. Dont trust a company<br>3. Never be first in line for a new miracle product <br><br>This is just to say, i wont be trying GLP1s any time soon.

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  @Justbored145 · 8 months ago

  This killed my grandpa, or rather it gave him multiple cancers and ultimately resulted in him ending his own life a couple years ago.

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  @Beauloqs · 8 months ago (edited)

  I love the way gov contractors get to play the &apos;we where only following orders......&apos; yet when enlisted men use the same defense..........jail time

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  @asryahawklight · 8 months ago

  Lets also remember that our government spent decades denying, and still deny, fault and take responsibility to offer care to affected veterans and veteran families. Many died painfully and without support or recourse.

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  @scrimplications · 8 months ago

  i grew up in norway. at my school there were two boys from vietnam - the younger had a severe cleft lip and palate. he was a few years younger than me. their father worked as a custodian at the school. he had a bad limp and didn&apos;t speak much, but he was very kind to me. i didn&apos;t connect the dots as to what had happened to that family until researching the vietnam war many years later. <br><br>the vietnam war didn&apos;t end just because people stopped fighting. new victims are being born to this day. chemical warfare is evil.

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  @CCeASMR · 8 months ago

  I never knew that it smelled nice.... That&apos;s so creepy...

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  @troybaxter · 8 months ago

  Let this be a lesson to learn:<br>Never trust government and never trust greedy corporations, especially ones that produce chemicals.

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