Agent Orange in Vietnam

I know people who worked in the plants making the shite. Maybe it effected them, maybe it didn't. They worked with so much other bad shite (in a time before we really had good safety measures in place) that pointing to any one of them specifically is almost impossible.

My dad was a C130 Loadmaster during Vietnam. He said they dealt with it. He died at 64 in 2009 from esophageal cancer..didn’t smoke and not heavy drinker. They said it could have been from exposure to Agent Orange.

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Do you personally know anyone who was affected from and later died from effects of Agent Orange poisoning while they were in Vietnam?

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I thought this was going to be an ad for the Sokolove Law Firm.

There was a Franciscan priest, Father Gary, in South Mississippi. He had cancer from Agent Orange. Don't know how it turned out.

WWI had mustard gas. My grandfather was affected by it.

You can meet me somewhere and I will kindly whip your arse. You POS.

Yes. A relative who fought in nam was sprayed several times and died in his 30s of cancer.

During the war, the govt didn’t know the long term effects

I worked with a guy about 35 years ago, who was one of a pair of twin brothers who got drafted and sent to Vietnam. Our offices were side by side and we went to lunch pretty much every day.

Dave got shot by a sniper, while crossing a rice paddy while on patrol one afternoon he was hit just under the left arm, about an inch up under the arm pit. It took off about 3 inches of his chest on that side, and most of his lung. He spent over a year in the hospital, then went to college and became a scheduler for the company we both worked at. He could barely move and never used that arm at all. He was a really good guy and I was proud to know him.

His twin brother was just another grunt. However, his job was to fill the tanks of planes set up to spray agent orange. Dave said his brother stayed wet with the stuff all day long every day. Said he smelled like it after showering for as long as they would let him shower. He came back and got sick one day. It was multiple myeloma. The VA said it was something unrelated to exposure to the chemical. Within a short time, he could not speak or walk and could barely breath. They found several different cancers had spread all over him and was "eating his brain" My words not the VA's. Anyhow, within eight months he died. The VA never agreed to any involvement.

Dave would get so mad, he would tear up at work. when he talked about his brother. He went to our congressman, senator and everyone seeking some recognition of what happened to his brother. Basically, they told him to shut up and go away.

When I was stationed at Womack Army hospital in FT Bragg, in 1971, we saw lots of patients with so many problems who had worked with Agent Orange. It was liquid cancer poison.

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It’s just a shame that servicemen and women who survived the war

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It’s a shame that we sent people over there in the first place.

Yep, took my dad years to get VA to recognize anything. Toughest person I knew.