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The 50th anniversary of AO spray in Vietnam & the 2011 Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act
According to the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, Wednesday August 10, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the United States Military’s first spraying of toxic chemicals in Vietnam. Rainbow herbicides, most notably Agent Orange, were used in combat by Marines, Navy, Army, and Air Force personnel against oppositional forces for a 10-year period, during the Vietnam War.# The chemicals, which often contained fairly lethal dosages of dioxins, were sprayed on more than 20,000 villages in concentrations up to 50 times the normal range of agricultural use. Most remembered as part of Operation Ranch Hand, Agent Orange and its counterparts were utilized in the embattled regions to defoliate vital natural resources (i.e.rice, cereal grain), remove canopy coverage from guerrilla combatants, and impose psychological devastation to the targeted enemy. Recent research suggests that the area of contamination is actually greater than the earlier estimate of 3.6 million acres; the toxins were distributed over 4.2 million acres.
According to the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, Wednesday August 10, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the United States Military’s first spraying of toxic chemicals in Vietnam. Rainbow herbicides, most notably Agent Orange, were used in combat by Marines, Navy, Army, and Air Force personnel against oppositional forces for a 10-year period, during the Vietnam War.# The chemicals, which often contained fairly lethal dosages of dioxins, were sprayed on more than 20,000 villages in concentrations up to 50 times the normal range of agricultural use. Most remembered as part of Operation Ranch Hand, Agent Orange and its counterparts were utilized in the embattled regions to defoliate vital natural resources (i.e.rice, cereal grain), remove canopy coverage from guerrilla combatants, and impose psychological devastation to the targeted enemy. Recent research suggests that the area of contamination is actually greater than the earlier estimate of 3.6 million acres; the toxins were distributed over 4.2 million acres.
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