Rolando Lopez urges Laredo to approve an Agent Orange awareness plaque at Vietnam Veterans Park, with an October unveiling ...

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Vietnam identifies Agent Orange victims by checking family history, where they lived, and a list of health problems linked to the poison. And Hai's disabilities were very likely linked to the ...

Stories involving Agent Orange and similar toxic herbicides used during the Vietnam War tend to be somewhat somber in nature.

Sprayed across Vietnam to strip the jungle bare, Agent Orange left a legacy of sickness, birth defects, and environmental devastation that continues decades later.

“For more than 30 years, the U.S. and Vietnam have worked together to rebuild relations by dealing with the worst legacies of the war, like Agent Orange,” he said.

Agent Orange and Vietnam The Department of Defense has described the Agent Orange used in Vietnam as a "tactical herbicide," more concentrated than what was commercially available in the U.S.

Across Vietnam, U.S. forces sprayed 72 million liters (19 million gallons) of defoliants during the war to strip the enemy's cover. More than half was Agent Orange, a blend of herbicides.