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A Spectrum of Poison
The Vietnam War is one of the most infamous and remembered of the past generation. Spanning from 1959 to 1975, many lives, both Vietnamese and American alike were taken from this world, over 1.4 million American lives to be more precise. During this time, the United States commenced a special military operation called “Trail Dust”. With this introduction of this program, the Americans introduced a massive amount of chemical herbicide into the Vietnamese air. Among these herbicides, all named after a different colour, was Agent Orange.
Agent Orange is one of several different Agents forming the “Rainbow Herbicides”. The way that soldiers differentiated the different chemicals from each other was by the stripe of paint on their barrels. Agent Pink had a pink stripe of paint across the barrel, whereas Agent Purple would have a purple stripe. All of these chemical herbicides release dioxins except for Agent Blue and Agent White. Dioxin is a man-made......

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