It covers the ground like a fiery blanket, burns everything that it hits. When he looks back on the intensity of protests against Dow Chemical Co. Young people today, when they watch western shoot-'em-up movies, they can handle people shooting each other.
But when you start dropping napalm in movies, it makes people cringe. You have to put it in perspective. It was a war. They were killing people. As for the protests against napalm, Karnow says, "what are the protesters saying? Let's have the war without the napalm? A cleaner war? Napalm was dramatic, and it had a kind of horrible quality to it.
So it was easy as a protest symbol. For me, I have 38 out of about side affects of Agent Orange exposure, so far and symptoms I do have, disable me enough not to be able to work. And all this, is done by our government, now it is time to let other Americans know what our government done, and time for American government to help 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation of Agent OrangeExposure.
We saw this awful poision being sprayed almost everyday but were told it was just bug spray and not to worry. We also transported and handled this stuff on our aircraft. Now I, along with many others, are paying the price! Check your PSA etc brothers and good health to you all! What about the pyristomine bromide test done on us in the 80 and 90s at various Air Force bases…the bromide destroyed our endocrine systems.
The drug normally used on Lupis patients was tested as a precursor drug for atropine injection in combat zones that have exposure to nerve agents. A senate hesring expised this time frame. But Dod and VA ha. Check out what the EPA says about that chemical you will be very suprised that you are still alive. Yet I served in the U. Army for more than 20 years, received a Bronze Star Medal from Desert Storm and cannot have my records annotated Agent Orange exposure.
When I explained I had stood in ankle deep Agent Orange while daily while on duty as an MP patrolling the area it was stored. Healthy as an ox until age 79, came down with acute leukemia and died a year later.
My grandfather was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam as well. He was healthy one day and found full body cancer the next. Passed away within 6 months of diagnosis. He was Why did they deny her claim?
I have been receiving benefits since my husband passed in He passed Oct, first check received was Feb — less than three months after his death. Do not go through a VA rep — file online yourself and make sure all documentation is sent in. While we were in Vietnam, we were told that the spraying will kill everything that grows but will not cause humans any problems. The insiders the manufacturers, etc.
Then when the truth started coming out, the various entities denied any possible health problems and the denials went on for years. Fifty years after the spraying started, the VA is doing a lot to help us veterans but my guess- a number of veterans passed away before they got help. Post WW 11, it was the Atomic veterans that heard the denials. After the first Gulf War, veterans with big health problems, heard the denials.
Bob Mulholland. Surviving spouse are eligible to receive benefits. I have been receiving since my husbands death in Go online for quicker file and turn around. VA reps are swamped and it takes much longer.
Thank you for bringing this to light. What about the research done at the DeBakey VA Hospital in Houston that identifies many genetic mutations caused by Agent Orange and passed to children of male Veterans. I know I saw it, as i worked for Baylor College of Medicine. My Dad passed in due go Agent Orange. It is bitter sweet to have begged for help for his Agent Orange exposure, only to be turned away, and now have it as a cause of death.
I know too many adult chilren of Vietnam Veterans that suffer from similar diseases passed on by their Dads bad genes. What about us? USS Boston. We gave artillery support up and down the coast.
We sat in DaNang Harbor and fired support. AO was in our drinking water, coffee, and food0. Our uniforms were washed in it. When will we get help from the VA? My late hubby was exposed to Agent Orange. I met him a year after he came home from serving aboard a destroyer during the war. Heart problems. Son has undersized testicles and probably not be able to have children either.
He also has asthma from an early age. I agree. My husband was a marine and in Viet Nam He passed away from lung cancer due to AO in Prior to his passing, he started the process for benefits — after his passing, his benefits were approved.
I am still able to receive monthly cash benefits and medical. I believe they need to look deeper into medical issues with children of all vets who served during that time. Our sons both have chronic coughs and asthma.
Our youngest son was born 22 years after my husbands exposure and his health issues are just as bad as oldest son who was born in 15 yrs after exposure. These men and women went above and beyond to serve our country. The least we can do is support their plight and push congress to speed up the process People who are waiting years is so unfair.
We did the process ourselves as when we met the VA rep he was very negative and discouraging almost purposely to frustrate us to give up. I did all the research and we filled out forms, filed them ourselves and called directly to follow up. File online and make sure you have all supporting documents when you submit. My husbands claim took less than 6 months from the time he initially filed.
My father passed away in from lung cancer that was caused by Agent Orange. I have had a total hysterectomy due to ovarian cancer. I agree that they need to recognize issue the children of the vets face. To date I have not been able to find information on what effect AO has on Women.
It is very interesting to me all 3 of these women have not been able to bear children. One of them have had breast cancer with no family histoy. Another one has had cancerous tumors removed. Thank You for your time and service. My dad has ao, just diagnosed with cancer. My sister and I both had reproductive issues and had to have hysterectomy.
Wishing they would recognize children with other health issues. I am 36 years old and my father served in vietnam. He died in when I was 7 due to cancer. I have had reproductive issues. I lost 2 babies before conceiving my oldest who just turned 6. When my youngest was 3 months old I had to have a hysterectomy.
I truly feel you should be covered for your losses.. This was so bad for so many and still effects many still today.. My dad and uncle were there in and my uncle died 4 years ago from AO I hope my aunt see this and gets what she has coming to her as I know the VA was taking care of him but not sure to how much. So sorry for all you have gone through. Coincidence or consequence of Ft.
I just filed for medical bennies again last Saturday……will probably be turned down yet again. In regards to the time limitations of Neuropathy, what happens when you were not aware you were exposed to Agent Orange until much later in your life? I have other symptoms such as diabetes and non hodgkins lymphoma until You CAN be service connected for neurapathy in lower extremeties years after Vietnam.
If those exact words are used, the dr has to say yes. If the dr says yes, VA must error on the side of the veteran. My husband got it, you can too. Get help from state VA offices.
Please help. Reply to Email: Begleyra gmail. Any help is much appreciated. Will you give more info on Dr Erickson Does he have a website.
Dear Dr. Erickson, Thank you for your service. My husband is a combat Vietnam Veteran. He was in Dong Ha and Quang Tri. Thanks to your research and writings he feels comfort knowing Agent Orange sicknesses are real. Thanks again for caring for the Vietnam Veterans.
Sincerely, Jackie Stewart. A Year and a Half, jeffrey jones? They sprayed the surrounding area as well as other places. Your state will usually have a list of VA advocates, any of which can help you file a claim. I was stationed at Camp Ranger outside Bien Hoa Pulled many ambushes at the end of the air base runway.
I developed Diabetes ll in and applied for diisability at that time. Despite carefully monitoring my Diabetes, it has progressed. I now have KIdney disease related to DMll. My claim is now being processed. I live in Maryland and my representitive is the Maryland Veterans Assistance.
They will be able to work around the red tape inherent to any government program. Each of these—manufactured by Monsanto, Dow Chemical and other companies—had different chemical chemical additives in varying strengths.
Agent Orange was the most widely used herbicide in Vietnam, and the most potent. More than 13 million gallons of Agent Orange was used in Vietnam, or almost two-thirds of the total amount of herbicides used during the entire Vietnam War.
It was found in varying concentrations in all the different herbicides used in Vietnam. Dioxins are also created from trash incineration; burning gas, oil and coal; cigarette smoking and in different manufacturing processes such as bleaching. Dioxin is a highly persistent chemical compound that lasts for many years in the environment, particularly in soil, lake and river sediments and in the food chain.
Dioxin accumulates in fatty tissue in the bodies of fish, birds and other animals. Most human exposure is through foods such as meats, poultry, dairy products, eggs, shellfish and fish.
Studies done on laboratory animals have proven that dioxin is highly toxic even in minute doses. It is universally known to be a carcinogen a cancer-causing agent. Short-term exposure to dioxin can cause darkening of the skin, liver problems and a severe acne-like skin disease called chloracne.
Additionally, dioxin is linked to type 2 diabetes, immune system dysfunction, nerve disorders, muscular dysfunction, hormone disruption and heart disease. Developing fetuses are particularly sensitive to dioxin, which is also linked to miscarriages, spina bifida and other problems with fetal brain and nervous system development. In , Dr. However, because the material was to be used on the enemy, none of us were overly concerned. We never considered a scenario in which our own personnel would become contaminated with the herbicide.
In , a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 2. Various challenges to the settlement followed, including lawsuits filed by some veterans, before the U. Supreme Court confirmed the settlement in In , President George H. Second, the development and research on incendiary weapons were neglected, to the advantage of chemical weapons, which were perceived as far more efficient than incendiary weapons, such as flamethrowers.
Things changed with the development of napalm. First, it greatly increased the probability of igniting other inflammable materials in the target area. Second, napalm has great visco-elasticity, which extends the range of the jet of flaming fuel projected by flamethrowers. These factors explain why the US military deployed napalm shortly after its creation. Napalm was deployed for the first time in the battlefield of Papua New Guinea, on 15 December with flamethrowers. The US military then delivered more and more napalm through aerial attacks, first in the Pacific 15 February near the Pacific Island of Ponhpei and six months later in Europe in the immediate aftermath of D-Day.
Although napalm was used in several conflicts in the aftermath of WWII -- for instance in the Greek Civil War and Indochina 10 --, these utilizations did not equal the quantity of incendiary weapons deployed by US planes during the short but devastating Korean War Not only did the allies drop more bombs on Korea than in the Pacific theater during WWII — , tons versus , tons — more of what fell was napalm, in both absolute and relative terms. At this time, napalm was regarded as a very efficient weapon to achieve area or strategic bombing, that is bombing which not only targeted a tactical infrastructure or position but covered the whole area surrounding the target.
In the period following the Korean War and preceding the Vietnam War , napalm reappeared twice on the battlefield, in Algeria and in Cuba. There is no official record of this, but several testimonies of journalists, and even militaries on the ground, acknowledge that napalm was used and produced in the French bases during the Algeria War The French were trained by US pilots to deploy napalm from the air. Incendiary weapons -- especially napalm -- became a weapon of choice for destroying infrastructure and resources to break the morale and undermine support for rebels.
The first known deployment of napalm during the Vietnam War occurred on 27 February By , napalm was a core element of the bombing strategy. The peak of displayed napalm was reached in April Napalm, and with it America, had lost its first war. After Vietnam, napalm was used in several wars, especially in the s in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The US military acknowledged recently that many MK77 bombs had been used during these wars. Even though these bombs were not called napalm, their incendiary properties are very similar. If MK and napalm have a different name, only a slightly different distribution of constituents makes napalm different from the liquid contained in MK Effects and military advantage are considered identical. First, the US military still uses napalm, but in much lower quantity: this supports the fact that the weapon — and the strategy of attrition which aims at massively destroying military but also civilian infrastructures and resources - is perceived as being tactically effective.
This seems particularly true for counterinsurgency, where those who fight are hard to identify and hide among civilians. The military prefers not to explicitly mention the name napalm out of concern for public opinion.
In order to understand why napalm fell into disgrace in the eyes of the military after the Vietnam War, and why the military questioned its strategic utility, it is first crucial to understand variations in the aerial attack doctrine. A weapon can never be studied ex nihilo , apart from the doctrine that promotes — or impedes — its deployment.
In this case, napalm cannot be dissociated from the aerial bombing doctrine. If the practice of aerial bombing was marginal before the massive German incendiary attacks of the Spanish Civil War notably, Guernica , they had preoccupied militaries since the s, and many of them tried to formulate the best aerial strategic doctrine. The debate over the best aerial strategic doctrine, that is the most efficient way to bomb the opponent, can be roughly divided into two positions: those who favor the attrition strategy i.
Of course, for the actors, these two positions are less two opposing stances than the two poles of a continuum: depending on the context and the opponent, the level of destruction or restraint can vary substantially. Following the precepts of Giulio Douhet, proponents of the strategy of attrition contend that the air bombings have to strike two targets.
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