Many people believe we win wars, when in actuality, no one does, especially those who serve in the armed forces (Suicide Wall, 11-10-2000). The Vietnam and other wars have mentally and sometimes physically dismembered many veterans. Another factor that plays a role in a war-related suicide is the addition of many on-site diseases such as defoliants, Agent Orange in particular. Made up of equal parts N-Butyl Ester 2,4,-D and N-Butyl Ester 2,4,5,-T, Agent Orange made many Vietnam soldiers go insane (Vietnam Veterans, 11-10-2000). This atrocious chemical lead and still today leads to death, deformation, and diabetes.
Later, more nutria were released into the wild by government officials to control other non-native species such as the water hyacinth and alligator weed. Since nutria live in the marshes and feed on plant roots, this leads to openings in the marsh’s vegetation, eventually converting the marshlands to open water. This is occurring at a rate of 25 to 35 square miles each year (U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, 2001). This loss of marshlands increases salt water intrusion into the marshlands and also decreases the natural defense against storm surge from hurricanes. Wild pigs, commonly known as wild hogs, or wild boar, are a non-native species of the Americas.
Such a case would be the story of Agent Orange. Agent Orange was an herbicide used in the Vietnam War by South Vietnam and the United States to try to get rid of the jungle in which the Vietcong used as cover. Unfortunately, the herbicide contained an extremely dangerous and potent compound 2,3,7,8, - tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), or commonly referred to as just dioxin (Herbicides). TCDD has caused many ill effects in people who have been exposed to it, and it was not only until years after the widespread use in the war that it was discovered to be exceedingly dangerous. The chemical defoliant Agent Orange, along with other defoliants, was produced and sold to the military by various companies such as DOW Chemical Company (Agent Orange).
A war between the two immediately broke out. In 1964, the USA entered the Vietnam War. The inconclusive war in Vietnam cost many American and Vietnamese lives, devastated the country, and achieved nothing but misery for anyone caught up in it; including the Cambodians. Cambodia had become part of the Vietnam battlefield. During the next four years, American B-52 bombers, using napalm and cluster-bombs, killed up to 750,000 Cambodians in their effort to destroy North Vietnamese supply lines.
Before they only used gasoline that would drop off people after a few seconds. Napalm would stick to them for about a half a minute to a minute that’s why it was so effective. The people who survived the bombings of napalm said that it’s the worst way to be burned and it scars u physically and mentally. This explains the creation and the effectiveness of a feared chemical weapon we used that impacted the history of the Vietnam
It is suggesting that many innocent people have been killed and as a result, even more innocent people have been hurt or corrupted. The second stanza is what Yeats expects to happen after the war.
My Lai Massacre Leading up to the massacre: In March 1968, Charlie Company of the American Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade received word that VC guerrillas had taken control of Son My. * Led by Lieutenant William L. Calley, the unit was sent to the village on a search-and-destroy mission on March 16. * At the time, morale among U.S. soldiers on the ground was dwindling, especially in the wake of the North Vietnamese-led Tet Offensive, which was launched on January 31 1968 * Army commanders had advised the soldiers of Charlie Company that all who were found in Son My could be considered VC or active VC sympathizers, and ordered them to destroy the village. * When they arrived, the soldiers found no Viet Cong, but rounded up and murdered hundreds of civilians–mostly women, children and old men–in an extremely brutal fashion, including rape and torture. * Calley was reported to have dragged dozens of people, including young children, into a ditch before executing them with a machine gun.
For example, consider how Native Americans, African Americans, or Japanese-Americans may feel about the flag. The United States government evacuated countless Native American communities and relocated them to small, overcrowded reservations. The United States government also promoted the mass slaughter of the animals that the Native Americans typically hunted and consumed, effectively starving most populations. The United States also unashamedly took part in the slave trade, forcing millions of Africans to come to the United States and become slaves. Even after slavery ended, most citizens and leaders in the country believed that African Americans were inferior and made laws specifically to repress African American rights.
Inside the secured areas were not much better with poor sanitation, starvation, and disease. When the revolt was suppressed, resistance against U.S. rule remained. Moro Province proved to be trouble to the U.S. When Filipinos there refused to accept U.S. rule, military threatened extermination, resulting in “600 men, women, and children were slaughtered at the Battle of Bud Dajo (Norton, 407).” The U.S. then tried to Americanize the Philippines. They even installed an education system with English as a primary language.
During this war, the American military utilized defoliants, which are known chemicals causing the plant’s leave to fall. One of the defoliants used by the military is Agent Orange and the PR Newswire (“HDNet world report investigates the devastating effects of Agent Orange 30 years after the Vietnam War”, 2009) reported that it is included with the20 million gallons of other herbicides that they dropped in the jungles of the Vietnam. The concentration level of this defoliants reaches up to 50 times, and the effect does not only appear to be detrimental among trees. Since, dioxin is a byproduct of Agent Orange, many people has been exposed in what the world call as the