re: Agent Orange in Vietnam

Yeah a beloved uncle. Incredible guy healthy until he came up with the blood cancer.

My dad was drafted into it. He saw his fair share of the shitte. He died at 38 from a heart attack. I was 7. I think his health issues were more of a result of the late 70’s / 80’s nose candy issue with veterans. I remember going to his VFW bingo hall and I was the only sober person in the room…and yet I still chose to serve when I was of age.

There is a guy I know because my parents know him who evidently has had health problems since returning from Vietnam. He is in his late 70s and while I don't know all of the things he has had wrong with him, I know he has had his intestines either removed or some of it removed... If I am not mistaken he did have cancer at some point, but because he is always having other issues, they caught it early.

I know someone who is in the same hunting camp as he is and one time something happened and they had to bring him where they dock at and an ambulance picked him up, It actually seems like its almost a miracle he is still alive.

Not according to go to hell ole miss - it has no bearing on children or birth defects. LOL

My dad was 101st airborne. He was near DMZ zone. He would wake up screaming and hollering all hours of the night. Nightmares I guess. He wouldn’t talk about it at all.

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There is no evidence that dioxins can mutate DNA sequences. If your sister and you were rats and had birth defects, there is a small chance that was related.

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I know I should stay out of this. I am not a doctor and only know what I saw firsthand while working at Womack Army Hospital. These guys were really sick. They suffered both physical and mental degeneration. To say a chemical that could cause those types of body damage (mantal, physical and cancer) could not cause DNA damage is foolish. I believe the government never came clean on what they did. I also believe they never will because of the damage to our government it would cause.

You do understand they sprayed the crap from low flying airplanes and it killed everything in the band where they sprayed. Not just some stuff. It killed everything. People who are scared of roundup, need to see what agent orange would do. I understand there were other agent ?? formulations they were spraying too. Don't know enough to say anything about them.

To quote Forest. "That's all I gotta say about that."

Common sense prevails.

I knew of a few. I knew a lot of Marines and Army infantry that was in that shite.

My dad. Served in the Navy and died of leukemia at age 29 from agent orange exposure in 1977

My uncle died from cancer in the early 90’s associated with Agent Orange but the VA denied him coverage until it was too late. He served on one of the patrol boats in the Mekong Delta and said they would used to stand nearly ankle deep in it spraying the river banks with it