AGENT ORANGE - THE ONGOING TRAGIC LEGACY OF TOXIC HERBICIDE USED BY THE US DURING VIETNAM WAR

The toxicity of herbicide AGENT ORANGE is still severely affecting Vietnamese babies being born today, many decades after the end of the war. 

Large areas of Vietnam were soaked in Agent Orange.  Many of the victims, ironically, were American soldiers exposed to the toxic chemical.

They were born decades after American forces had sprayed the herbicide dioxin Agent Orange in South Vietnam, but some children living in the region today continue to suffer from the horrifying effects of the chemical.

 

New York City-based photographer Brian Dricscoll traveled to Vietnam to document the everyday struggles of third generation Agent Orange victims battling dozens of serious ailments, physical deformities and mental disorders.

 

Driscoll was inspired to take up this difficult topic by his uncle, a Vietnam War veteran who may have been one of estimated 2.6 million U.S. soldiers believed to have been exposed to Agent Orange in the 1960s.

 

See pictures of today's Vietnam victims here -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401378/Agent-Orange-Vietnamese-children-suffering-effects-herbicide-sprayed-US-Army-40-years-ago.html

 

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