The Vietnam war was packed full of social injustice, racism, and violation of even the most basic human rights. When US soldiers were finally deployed to south Vietnam, one of their first actions as a military operation was to deploy Agent Orange (also known as dioxin contaminated 24-D) via US Huey Helicopters. The US military sprayed over 20,000,000 gallons of the disgusting defoliant
All over Southern Vietnam. 24-D destroyed all crops and forestation that supported the people of Vietnam, cutting of their primary source of food and sending them into famine and hunger. Not only did the US army absolutely destroy the Vietnam forests and crops, but they sprayed villages and towns as well.
Agent Orange was linked to extremely damaging health effects before they deployed it in Vietnam, but even after they discovered it was also infected with a dioxin, they continued to spray it over the people of south Vietnam.
Agent orange changed the people of Vietnam for generations to come: altering the immediate population, deforming their youth, and bringing up rates of infertility, stillborns, and deformed children in Vietnamese women. Aside from the people it directly effected, 24-D unquestionably deprived the a very large part of the Vietnamese people of normal lives, normal children, and a normal future.
Aside from Agent Orange deployment, the overall treatment of the Vietnamese people during the US occupation in southern Vietnam. Numerous reports from soldiers stated that the way they treated the general population was "inhumane" and tensions were high between them and the Vietnamese people. Many accounts, put into the form of books, truly reveal the "unflinching nature" of the real war, the one that the public didn't fully see at the time.
| A Group of Vietnamese children run scared from American Soldiers |
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The USVA ( US Department of Veterans Affairs) handles just about everything involved with veterans, from health, burials, and memorials, to Benefits, charities, and all kinds of resources. The USVA offers a range of health care help, prescription refills, crisis prevention solutions, and mental health help, made as easily accessible as possible for Veterans and their families. Aside from physical and mental health help, USVA holds numerous charities and benefits for veterans, such as traumatic injury insurance, rehab and employment funds, and disability compensation benefits. is Its already past the time for help, the USVA provides burials, memorial services, Nationwide grave site locators, headstone markers, and burial flags. The USVA stands out at a hero of an organization for their numerous ways of providing help for those who have served our country, and helping the families of those who have given their lives for it.
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