Messed up things from the Vietnam War Agent Orange rained diseases and disabilities on generations of people
The last GI to die on Vietnamese soil during combat perished in 1973, according to History. Eleven hours later a ceasefire officially commenced in accordance with the Paris Peace Accords. However, the ceasefire soon ceased, and Vietnam's soil continued ending GI lives for decades. That soil also assailed solders' children and their children's children and millions of Vietnamese children and adults.
Vietnam's soil contained one of the war's dirtiest secrets. The Conversation related that between 1961 and 1971 America showered Vietnam with 45 million liters of the herbicide Agent Orange. In the process it doomed up to 4.8 million Vietnamese residents. The rationale sounded straightforward: drown the country's jungles in plant poison to prevent Vietcong from hiding. This meant poisoning everyone in the vicinity, but Uncle Sam assured everyone that Agent Orange wouldn't hurt anyone.
Uncle Sam was dead wrong. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lists 14 different diseases, including Parkinson's and seven kinds of cancer, linked to Agent Orange exposure. That doesn't include the life-shortening disorders and severe disabilities suffered by the children of those exposed. It gets more depressing. Per the Chicago Tribune, in 1990 the VA revealed that the military realized Agent Orange was dangerous but used it anyway. In fact, as the Guardian detailed, the military sprayed Agent Orange that was 25 times more potent than its own guidelines suggested. It was literally overkill, just like the war itself.
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Fresh filth on one of the greatest, longest tortures a huge country has ever foisted on a tiny one. This is a fantastic (i.e. horribly shocking) new look at ameriKa's glorious crimes against the men, women and children of how many countries during that diabolical decade -- no, twenty years -- no, more than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_the_United_States_in_the_Vietnam_War
Without exception, when I've known Vieterans who commented on the "war", they've joked and laughed about how they treated the "gooks" e.g. grenading soldiers hiding underwater breathing through straws. Let's hope Grunge never spends a year charting the many corners of the earth raped by ameriKa and its little dog Britain through the centuries. After that would remain the corners of those corners -- and their corners.
I hope the top picture alone breaks some hearts -- it wasn't enuff that we sacrificed 300,000 prime young white lives in WW2 (always culling out the less genetically perfect first) so we threw another 40-50k away in Southeast Asia. Add the nonwhites in and it's like throwing away the male population of Seattle.