Use Outside Vietnam
While 'Agent Orange' was only used between 1965 and 1970, 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and other herbicides were used by the US military from the late 1940s through the 1970s. There is, however, no scientific evidence that these herbicides contained the same levels of dioxin as those used in Vietnam.
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“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
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