Agent Orange was a herbicide an a weedkiller used to eliminate rainforest cover so the VC couldn't use it. Agent orange was used alot in the Vietnam war. According to History.com staff it tells me that about 11 to 13 million gallons of Agent Orage was sparyed in between January of 1965 in April 1970. Agent Orange is most known to come in orange striped containers.…
The press portrayed the Vietnam war in a very negative light and this carried over into how the soldiers in the war were perceived. In a way, they were on the opposite of the World War II veterans. However, neither group’s hardships were understood by society. The Vietnam era did not perceive veterans correctly but did precede a new way of viewing…
In document “Agent Orange,” it is said that this use of chemical weapon made it so that if a human was exposed to it, would cause “muscular dysfunction, birth defects, various cancers,” and more after that. Generations later children are now born with harmful disorders and defects that are still talked about to this day. Now chemical weapons weren’t the only weapon that was widely talked about. The use of Napalm which was a mixture of gasoline and liquid that stuck onto human skin and set aflame. In document 5 “ Use of Napalm,” it is said that napalm gradually melted the flesh off of the humans.…
”The Vietnam War affected the soldiers who fought in it by causing long-term injuries, addiction, and P.T.S.D. The Vietnam War caused many soldiers long-term injuries. “This eighteen year old G.I. came into my recovery ward. He had been through surgery. He had been in a APC that ran over a mine, and I think he was the only survivor.”…
The United States was using a defoliant known as Agent Orange that was used to eliminate tree cover and crops that were beneficial to the North Vietnamese. Agent Orange was an extremely powerful herbicide that later proved to cause serious health problems, such as tumors, rashes, birth defects, and cancer among both troops and Vietnamese citizens. From 1961 to 1972, four-and-a-half million gallons of the defoliant were poured over nineteen million acres of Vietnamese land. In addition to the irreparable harm done to the Vietnamese environment, around 400,000 citizens were killed or seriously injured by the defoliant, and to this day, people suffer side effects linked to it (Agent Orange). MORE ON…
The Vietnam War was a chilling time in American History. Many who did not grow up in that era of time look at the nineteen sixties as a time of peace and love. The truth is, it was a time of violence and turmoil in America. Race riots were happening all over our country, drugs were being embraced by a new generation and there were political riots about the draft and the involvement of the American government in Vietnam. No one suffered more from the chilling effects of the Vietnam War than the soldiers who fought it.…
Do you know how many US service members died in the Vietnam war ? 58,200 American soldiers died during the United States' involvement in the conflict. Lots of lives were lost in the Vietnam war not only US service members, but vietnamese on both sides died. when remembering the soldiers that fought in Vietnam, It's important to consider that after the war, they are changed men, many soldiers had to deal with lots of hardships during the war , and the training for the war ahead. how has war shaped men to who they are after the war John Aguilar said “I talked about some of the experiences.…
In recent events in history we have seen that there has been lack of care for our soldiers coming home but now with these government studies based on P.T.S.D. We have now realize that this disorder need much more attention. The Vietnam war had started when the the rise of Ho Chi Minh was rising into communist power in the northern Vietnam, which caused the United States to go into a cold war with the Soivent Union. When these soldiers went into war they didn't see the consequences when they came home many of them felt alienated…
Throughout American history, war has caused more divide and debate in those not fighting in the war in Vietnam. A war started by the fear of the spread of communism, this conflict lead to the deaths of many men. Sending Americans to Vietnam was widely debated, splitting American citizens into two groups, pro-war and anti-war. Depending on one’s socioeconomic position in society, their perspective on whether or not the Vietnam war should have been fought varied, which led to the treatment of the soldiers upon their arrival home. Despite the fact that many of the soldiers being sent to Vietnam were from the working class, the majority of the people on the pro-war side were from the working class as well.…
As bloody as any other wars, Vietnam War took away more than thousand lives, in which many of them were civilians. A lot of people were wounded and hundreds of thousands of children were left orphans. The war ruined both North and South of Vietnam. Agent Orange is the major herbicides used, it has left a serious ecological and human impact on Vietnamese people’s lives. Many veterans were supposedly exposed to Agent Orange and as of today, there are still many children in Vietnam growing up with various diseases, disabilities affected by the harmful chemicals carried out in the war.…
The weaponry of World War I proclaimed the dawning of a new era of human conflict. The days of honorable combat were replaced with weapons of mass casualties such as machine guns and explosives of catastrophic proportions. But these tools of death paled in comparison to the horrors of chemical warfare. Poison gases removed the enemy, replacing him with a faceless horror that more resembled the superstitions and ghosts of the Dark Ages than the newest scientific advantages of the 20th century. From the personal accounts surrounding the first gas attack of World War I and subsequent relevant studies, it is evident that chemical weapons were far more lethal psychologically than physically.…
Growing up in a Vietnamese family in America, the value of life is highlighted by working hard and knowing your roots. Stories about family hardship and history told from the older generation in my family are mostly ones of war. I have heard many different elements of war: war crimes, anticommunist sentiments, and the escape from Vietnam. Hearing these stories has always resonated with me, motivating me to work hard for the sacrifice of those before me. In that sense, I worked rigorously to provide myself an education from the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas and was excited about pursuing a professional health career.…
Therapy of the Vietnam War In the book “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien describes his and others experiences during and after the Vietnam War. (1) O’Brien tells this story to explain the different ways that troops were able to cope with the killing, death, and changes that went on during the war so that they could continue fighting. (2) O’Brien included many first hand accounts of the different ways the troops coped with the experiences they had during the war and when they returned to life back home in America after their time of duty. (3) Some people in the war were able to cope or were not able to cope depending on how you look at it.…
Drug Use During the Vietnam Conflict Drug usage during the Vietnam War era was very common. Many soldiers who were drafted into the army had previously experimented with drugs, and it has been estimated that this included 30% of enlisted soldiers. While the remaining 70% of soldiers may not have ventured into drug use before the war, it became all to easy for them once they entered Vietnam where heroin and opium were easily accessed by the soldiers. The drugs were cheap and pure which enabled soldiers to get high with combining heroin with marijuana, or with tobacco. The issues of drugs during the Vietnam era was significant due to soldiers drug use over the course of the war, the associated drug trade that formed, and the negative after…
The aftermath of the Vietnam War left a lasting affect on American culture. This was the the longest and most debilitating war for the United States and changed the U.S. forever. There was overwhelming protest and debate on the war and it divided the country and its leaders on the uncertainty of foreign policy. My mother was just a child during the war itself but her family experienced the aftermath of the war economically, socially and culturally. The Vietnam War damaged the U.S. economy, spending 168 billion towards the conflict.…