vietnam

used to mark the drums it was stored in. Agent Orange "was a reddish-brown liquid containing two herbicides: 2,4,5-T was contaminated in the manufacturing process with a type of dioxin - 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, also known as TC

. . .
Everything you touched, handled, drank or ate was contaminated. Hodgkin's disease most often occurs in people 15 to 35 years of age and over 50. These Veterans should have been notified immediately of the harm they were subject to and the harm possibly still to come. "(Walker, 276) We made this killer and now we are forced to live with it. There was no change of clothes, only more ammo and sometimes your mail. The introduction to using resources: Choices and Trade-off states that "The choices people have made in just the last hundred years are largely responsible for what we call the environmental crisis. I fight for them, I cry for them, I pray for them! I have had cancer removed from my face and I have some to be removed from my chest. "The Ranch Hand study - looks at a group of veterans who were directly involved in spraying the bulk of the nearly 19 million gallons of chemical defoliant in Vietnam during the war. I am a combat veteran I received head wounds from shrapnel and extreme explosions causing me brain damage an!

d a seizure disorder. Dettinger (an Air Force Deputy Surgeon General) helped make sure it was done by Air Force scientists. "The report that was withheld dealt specifically with reproductive health issues, and stressed birth defects and infant deaths. The Dioxin analysis is a test, which measures the dioxin levels in both the blood and the fatty tissues.

Common topics in this essay:
Agent Orange, Ranch Hand, Air Force, Institute Medicine, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Hodgkin's Disease, Mother Nature, South Vietnam, agent orange, Cutanea Tarda, Choices Trade-off, ranch hand, air force, institute medicine, birth defects, department veterans, veterans affairs, vietnam veterans, department veterans affairs, operation ranch hand, hand study, operation ranch, ranch hand study, institute medicine 1, effects agent orange,

Approximate Word count = 2668
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)

Already a member? Click here