Operation Ranch Hand operation

“Called Operation Ranch Hand, 11 million gallons of Agent Orange was sprayed over hundreds of square miles of jungle and inland waterways. Unknown to the crews who flew the aircraft, 60,000 ground troops were inadvertently sprayed and breath…”

“bullets, booby traps, but now had no support from their government that they had fought for and often experienced hostility in their neighborhoods and in the courts and in the government. In 1978, a group of Agent Orange vets sued Dow Chemi…”

“The suit charged that the defoliants contained unsafe levels of dioxin, which was known by the manufacturers to be 170,000 times more deadly than cyanide, and the companies involved knew the danger. The court battles lasted for six years, f…”

“post about Operation Ranch Hand, which I think was perhaps alluded to in Peter Dale Scott's chapter that you just read or referred. So basically, you know, this is something that, as people know by the date, this was, you know, undertaken b…”

“to compensate victims. Representative Weiss went on to state unequivocally that while the Reagan administration defended the Vietnam conflict as an honorable war, it worked behind the scenes to deny benefits to the very people who sacrifice…”

“Not everyone in the upper echelons of military power surrendered to the White House. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the former chief of naval operations in Vietnam, testified in the Weiss Committee that Dr. Vernon Hawk, H-O-U-K, of the Center for Di…”

“to compensate victims. Representative Weiss went on to state unequivocally that while the Reagan administration defended the Vietnam conflict as an honorable war, it worked behind the scenes to deny benefits to the very people who sacrifice…”