Vietnam War Effects

The reminisce of war has a lasting effect on every society involved. We can point the blame of that war at both parties involved, but the ultimate negligence is the country that enters another country; destroys its future for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and leaves without worry of survivability of everyone involved.
All aspects of war and the methods used to win that war can be very bitter and have a lasting effect on not just the countries fighting that war but also the generations to follow those war fighters. As for the Vietnam War, it had the same effect most wars have except the techniques used to win that war is still being fought some fifty years later.
The span of the Vietnam War had many aspects of reasoning for being …show more content…
These chemical agents or Herbicides were named after the band that was painted on the shipping cylinders. All of these agents would kill all plant life in a matter of hours, kill animal life in a matter of days to weeks, and human life in hours, days, months, years, and possibly they would live long enough to infect their own offspring. These chemical agents would leave a Dioxin residue in the earth that would never dissipate and would keep killing anything living for decades after deployed. So to paint a vivid picture of the cause and effect, whatever Agent Orange didn’t kill by either nerve like symptoms and burn like blisters would return home and propagate with their spouse and every single child would either come into the world missing limps, have extra limps, have cancer, be mentally disabled, or be dead at …show more content…
The slight turn in events was in 1991 when the Vietnam Act of 1991 was signed. It declared a number of things but the most significant was that whosoever can prove their location and illness in relation to the Agent Orange that the United States Army deployed would receive compensation. Since the Vietnam Act there has been hundreds upon thousands of Supreme Court trials with personnel from both countries, United States and Vietnam. Most of these trials would rule that the Epidemiological or clinical studies could not be recognized as a solid piece of evidence and that further evidence was needed. The only trials that really received a quantifiable end was 10 years after the Vietnam War. It was a United States Veteran and they received full compensation which open the door for other Americans that fought in that war. Today it is still a battle for compensation from the Vietnamese to get the compensation that they

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