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"We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. ["A Time to Break the Silence" speech given at Riverside Church New York City April 4, 1967]

War Vietnam

Da Nang International Airport - Agent Orange and the Removal of Dioxin:

For ten years the US Air Force flew nearly 20,000 herbicide spray missions in order to destroy the forest cover as well as agricultural lands in key areas of southern Vietnam. By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, which were often applied at rates that were 13 times as high as the legal USDA limit. Ref. Source 8

Vietnam War History & Civil Business Politics

Vietnam: Through the 50-year prism

Robert Modrzejewski sometimes still smells the sickly sweet scent of decomposing bodies in the humid Vietnamese jungle. Jack Lyon meditates every day and has made a fraught peace with his experience fighting ... Ref. Source 7

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Fall of Saigon memories, 40 years later

San Diego — Forty years after the fall of Saigon, gray-haired men — some walking with canes, many relying on hearing aids — came on Saturday to see the names of old .. Ref. Source 3

War Vietnam

The Vietnam war was one of the worst history. We learned a lot about how NOT to fight over there. Jungle warfare can be mean and this why agent orange was developed much to the regret of many today.

Vietnam War

The United States involvement in the Vietnam war was very unnecessary, there were too many casualties and deaths and an uneven chance of winning the war just because they wanted to suppress the chance of communism to be spread around the globe at a deadly price.