Agent Orange Pamela King Summary

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In this scholarly thesis by Pamela King, she goes very in-depth about the effects of Agent Orange on people during and after the war. Although she covered pretty much everything on the war in her one hundred plus page thesis, the main part to focus on is the section that talks about the legal actions taken by the U.S. veterans after the war. She goes into detail about the legal cases that were in action after the war. A specific suit that she talks about was filed in the Federal District Court in New York from 2.4 million Vietnam War veterans against the U.S. government and the chemical companies that produced Agent Orange. Many Blue Water veterans have testified to witnessing large billowing clouds of Agent Orange engulfing their ships. Dow

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