There were many forms of herbicide used in Vietnam war. Besides agent orange there were agents purple, green, white, pink, blue, and even an agent orange II. These chemicals were given these color-coded names because of the identifying colored strip on all the fifty five gallon drum concealing these herbicides. All of these have a different ... chemical makeup, but the ingredient which makes agent orange dangerously toxic compared to the others is that it contained dioxin, hailed by Harvard Professor to be " the most toxic small molecule know to man". A lethal combination of chemicals know .....

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... wave refugees. Little Saigons have sprung up in U.S cities including Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago, and San Jose. But the most renowned and officially recognized Little Saigon is located in Orange County California, considered the Vietnamese capital of the United States. On June 17, 1988 Governor George Deukmejian came to Westminster, CA and granted official designation to the area (Trinidad ... ). This was an emotional day for the Vietnamese community. Orange County's Little Saigon has became a major hub of the Vietnamese diaspora. It has grown to nearly 2000 commercial establishments, ...

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... not and end up loosing your life by its carelessness with the usage of its weapons on the battlefield. And used along side Napalm was Agent orange, a pesticide used with the intention of depriving Vietnamese farmers and guerrilla fighters of clean food and water in hopes they would relocate to areas ... the operation over twenty million gallons of herbicides and defoliants were sprayed over forests and fields. Destroying and affecting more than was originally intended. Agent Orange still ravages through certain areas of Vietnam til this day as The Vietnam Red Cross recorded over 4.8 mil...

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... The Deer Hunter. Rambo, a former Green Beret and Medal of Honor winner, wanders into the Northwest town of Hope to find that his wartime buddy has died of an Agent Orange caner. The sheriff does not like vagabonds and places Rambo under arrest for vagrancy. Insulted and pushed by the sheriff's subordinates, Rambo, suffering from post-Vietnam shock, disables the men ... . Returning back from the war, he has no use for his war skills and roams around finding all his friends to be addicts or dead from committing suicides and Agent Orange. Kotcheff uses the mythical ideology that the United ...

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... . "the war was lost primarily at strategic, diplomatic, and domestic political levels" . In fact, the Johnson administration had to use propaganda to avoid public discontent at the use of Agent Orange and the slaughter of the Vietnamese people. "The picture of the worlds greatest super-power killing or seriously injuring 1,000 non-combatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation ... ...

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