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...Viet Nam did not threaten our freedom: a takeover of the Persian Gulf region by the Soviets will. Did our involvement in Viet Nam so distort our thinking that we can no longer differentiate between a folly and a serious threat to the future of freedom in America...
...young men had expected long ago to have memories of the Viet Nam War behind them and concentrate on their growing families and civilian careers. But when 300 Long Island, N.Y., veterans, wives and children met at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bay Shore, they exchanged tales of a terror that has deformed their lives. Jim Albrigtsen, 30, is in almost constant pain from pus-filled lumps under his skin. Mike Ryan, 34, has recovered from a similar affliction, but his eight-year-old daughter Kerry has 18 birth defects, including missing bones in her right...
...former soldiers are united by more than their pain; they gathered to hear a report on what may be the biggest product-liability case ever filed, and surely one of the most unusual. With some 3,000 other Viet Nam veterans across the country, they are plaintiffs in a suit against five companies that made a defoliant called Agent Orange, which the veterans believe is the cause of their maladies...
...Force sprayed Agent Orange heavily over Viet Nam to lay bare thousands of acres of jungle in which Viet Cong guerrillas were thought to be hiding. An Army handout for one such mission, Operation Ranch Hand in 1966, assured the troops that "the sprayed chemical is nontoxic to human or animal life." But Agent Orange was contaminated by a byproduct of the manufacturing process, dioxin, which is perhaps the most toxic synthetic chemical known. When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people...
...both Korea and Viet Nam, many thousands of American lives were uselessly thrown away because the politicians, bemused by the apparently inexhaustible supply of draftable bodies, chose to abandon sound military principles and send them into battle with artificial restrictions imposed on the use of our air and sea power which were the same as sending them to be slaughtered with one hand tied behind their backs...