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Aircraft sprayed Agent Orange to kill vegetation that provided cover for North Vietnamese forces.

[pikkil47]

`Bout time!! but,,, now the fight is on...you know, the fight to get ANYTHING from the VA. I do truly believe that "uncle" (as in every vets favorite uncle..."sam") not only killed the VC and NVA, they also killed all of us... it's just taking a little longer than they expected for some of us to lay down and quit breathing.

[pikkil47]

Something in the environment? SOMETHING IN THE ENVIRONMENT??
yeah, like flying C-4, flying lead objects, shrapnel, napalm, and the battery of innoculations we had to have before we went to the meat grinder. Guilmartin is a &$#@* and shilling for the govt./military industrial complex

[Jerry L Dennis]

Viet Nam 1966/1967/Jan 1968 I am a 100% Disabled Veteran from that period. I have all the connecting diseases. I have helped a few get going in the VA system. It takes all of us to help those who don't get the help. Yes each attach desaese has a percent disabledment. You have to have multible problems..... GET THE WORD OUT. A LOT HAVE CANCER THAT ISN'T DECTABLE IN EARLY YEARS.

[Fishin Musician]

Corporate pirates and their doggies in government have stalled on Agent Orange issues since DAY ONE.
Gawd-For-Friggin'-Bid that their high speed rapacious extraction of wealth from The People should be slowed down in ANY way.
Look at the Horror Show on Wall Street and in the Financial"services"( Hah!)cesspool.
The more things change;the more they remain the same(until the Pirate Captains and their servile cabin boys start getting dropped).

[Lancaster Louie]

Maybe if they were better soldiers, they would not have had to use this.

[pikkil47]

louie, go back -n- play call of duty on your PSIII.
Unless and until you've had to fight in jungle so thick you can barely see your hand in front of your face just keep your mouth shut. Besides, it wasn't the grunts idea...they used to fly over and spray the stuff on us. Anyway, back to your barcalounger you POGUE.

[pikkil47]

louie, waddle back and play call of duty on your PSIII. Unless and until you've had to fight in jungle so thick you could barely see your own hand at an arms length you need to just shut up. Besides, it wasn't the grunts idea.... they used to fly over and drop the stuff on us too. But back to you... just sit down in your barcalounger and keep quiet.
You REMF POGUE. Go ahead, look it up in wikipedia Louie...there's a picture too...oooh, it's you.

[Lancaster Louie]

Don't you have a war to lose or something?

[Woot]

Replace "agent orange" with "depleted uranium" and we'll be going through this again in 10 years. It's a sad cycle.