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“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.

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

After TCDD, the dioxin in Agent Orange, was found to cause cancer and birth defects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slapped an emergency ban on the herbicide in 1979.

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