... men had to take bitter-tasting pills to combat the disease. The pills made the men's skin have a jaundice color and there were two men that died due to black water fever. The most routine ailment was FUO - fever unknown origin. These diseases were due to the horrible living conditions ... essentially inhuman war." It was fine to shoot a Vietnamese who was running, but not one that was standing or walking. Even with these wrongs of the war, the soldiers acquired a magnetism to combat (230). The American soldiers were becoming much like the Viet Cong, as there rations became cooked ... 3...

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... men had to take bitter-tasting pills to combat the disease. The pills made the men's skin have a jaundice color and there were two men that died due to black water fever. The most routine ailment was FUO - fever unknown origin. These diseases were due to the horrible living conditions ... essentially inhuman war." It was fine to shoot a Vietnamese who was running, but not one that was standing or walking. Even with these wrongs of the war, the soldiers acquired a magnetism to combat (230). The American soldiers were becoming much like the Viet Cong, as there rations became cooked ... 3...

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... in humans [Nil]. The United States used fifteen different herbicides in Southeast Asia, including the types of orange, green, white, pink and purple, all of which are mixtures of various herbicides. Agent Orange was the most widely used herbicide. The fifteen herbicides used were also known as color death (James 2005). The United States started spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam War in 1967 with ... the intent to poison thick vegetation that concealed enemy locations during the war. The herbicide was believed not to affect humans. The United States claims that Agent Orange contains only a...

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