What Is Agent Orange? | History

Agent Orange was a chemical herbicide used during the Vietnam War that had a devastating impact long after the conflict ended.

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[mitthrawnuruodo]

My high school teacher was a victim of this. He didn't even know how harmful it was until years later when his daughter was born with heart problems. He remember ed being caked with the stuff and didn't notice the problems. Luckily he and his daughter turned out fine and are still alive to this day.

[wolfganggrimmerdoesnotdese]

Its horrible for the soldiers that was affected by it, but imagine the pain of the civilians that was directly in contact with it

[taybee]

My boss's brother just died from Agent Orange complications on Wednesday. Tis why I looked it up and found myself here.. very sad stuff

[jeanienguyen]

Children in Vietnam are still affected by agent orange to this day 😭😭😭😭

[RUNDNB]

The fact that some Americans are proud of this is very disturbing.

[richardnoah]

My grandfather was an c-130 pilot in Vietnam. He only flew a handful of agent orange missions and yet it gave him the cancer that killed him 29 years later. They did tests to see how much and where the cancer was after he died. And it’s a good thing that they did. My family was worried about my grandmother having enough money to live on. Then, about 6 weeks after his funeral the government sent her a big fat check. It was at that point that she told us all what had happened.

[mikehogan]

My daughter suffers a lot of different types of ailments.. I served two tours in Vietnam on c-123 aircraft....no help

[Ghostrider]

I never was taught this in school I wonder why🤔

[BumRed]

My grandfather died from agent orange in Vietnam

[garyclint]

This stuff took my grandfather before I was old enough to really know him.😢 This stuff really gets to the whole family for a few generations.

[angelica]

Excellent explanation. Very detailed, but also clear and straightforward.

[taz-on-the-looseyusef]

why do some people dislike a video with so much information, i didnt know what agent orange is, until i serched and found this video which explains very well with images, and someone just dislikes it, im sure they wanted to dislike the chemical agent orange, not the video itself, oh poor souls

[sarnott]

Although I didn't know this until lately, apparently I was exposed to Agents Blue and White as well! 13 surgeries so far, all relatively minor and all on my right foot! Last one was less than two weeks ago. But about 25 years after VN, my right foot came down with Squamous Cell Carcinoma. The first surgeries were more like "whittling" than real surgery, they kept cutting off the green parts of my toe and pulled out the complete toenail. My civilian Doc also supported the local VA and he was the one that ID'd it as AO-related cancer (minor cancer). Cancer tends to spread through the lymph system and there are few lymph nodes in our feet. So, I was blessed. My last one included fusing my entire right big toe with a couple steel plates but, I'm almost walking OK now and see the Doc to hopefully get cleared to drive next week! Again, I'm one of the few lucky ones!!!

[josephp.goetzinger]

I lost two brothers to agent orange. Both served overseas in Korea and Vietnam. Had to fight to get the benefit. So sad to see both go. Hope to get involved to make it easier on the survivors of this madness

[YC-SLIME]

My Uncle was a combat medic in Vietnam, served 3 tours and died of Agent Orange.

[thuhuong]

Chất độc màu da cam. The Vietnamese name for this monster, affect our country greatly and still now

[MrSloika]

One of the chem plants that produced agent orange was in New Jersey. That chemical company repeatedly dumped bad batches of agent orange into the Passaic River. Today a 10 mile stretch of the river is so heavily contaminated with dioxin it's too dangerous to go near it.

[DEDHA]

They destroyed life, future, and dreams of millions people....
😭😭😭😭

[arvindshastry]

I was searching for Sodom's album Agent Orange but ended up watching this video, I never knew that Agent Orange affected so many people's lives.

[encompassthyeclipse]

If anyone is curious, look up Fernow Experimental forest, here in Tucker Co WV. It served as one of the very first testing grounds for agent orange, and up to 90% of Parsons city residents ended up with cancer over their lives. Still to this day, Parsons suffers from a disproportionate level of cancers in the population, my father who grew up there is 65 and had cancer 4 times.