Actual Blog date: Wednesday May 19, 2010
Historical Date: December 12, 1968
Today we had a safety briefing on the one the chemicals they were dropping by the gallon on the forests. They called it agent orange, a herbicide and defoliant. The supposed goal of the spreading of this chemical was to help destroy the forest where we believed the Viet Cong were hiding. Some of the effects though they told us included cancer, deformations, and several birth defects. They showed us some of the pictures of people who were affected by the chemical. Private Marcus vomited after a short while.(2)
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