It's Sunday and I hope everyone is doing alright! I have been watching documentaries since this morning. I am learning a lot of different things, especially about the Agent Orange victims of Vietnam. If you are not aware of the Orange children, you can watch this documentary about it by SBS Datelina. Here is this link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3DcCtoUubo
To give you a little bit of detail about it; it is about the lasting effect of the Vietnam war to, not only the War Veterans, but to their children and probably, the next generation as well. You see, amidst the war, US military decided to spread Agent Orange, a toxic herbicide. Its purpose is to kill the trees, plants and etc. so that the US military will know where their enemies are, but instead, it left a devastating effects to everyone.
In the documentary, it shows the children affected by the Agent Orange. They have birth defects resulting from a parent (a war Veteran) inhaling the herbicide. But, it does not only affect war veterans' children but also those who were unfortunate enough to come in contact to this toxic chemical.
The Red Cross estimated on Vietnam 3 million who are affected by this chemical, and 150, 000 of them are all children. How unfortunate that even after the war ended, people can still feel the devastating effect of what it left behind.
In 1971, the use of Agent Orange was banned by the US and all remaining stocks has been destroyed. I hope that the ones affected by this chemical will heal one day, and carry out a normal life.
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