Vietnam War Lesson Learned

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I learned in the Vietnam war, I found out about something called orange decease the Vets said it was everywhere, even in the stream they drank from, so the Vets said all of them had gotten it one way or another, they said it was even on the trees. They said the war was very difficult, they didn’t even get supportive gear, which would protect them, but they weren't aloud to, the only things they got to wear where the clothes that they had on, they didn’t have any other clothes. When they where in the war the only way they could communicate with family and friends were a letter hand written unlike now everyone has phones and computers, they didn’t have the stuff we had all they got too use was a pencil/pen and paper. But they still got to talk

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