A granite plaque was unveiled Thursday near the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial to honor uncounted veterans who died after their war service
from the lasting effects of Agent Orange, post-traumatic stress
disorder or other unseen wounds. Based on the controversial criteria
used to count deaths Americans will never know how many soldiers' lives
were shortened by the Vietnam War. "No statistics have been kept on how
many people died as a result of Agent Orange or post-traumatic stress
disorder suicides," Fitzgerald said. Between 1962 and 1971, U.S. planes
sprayed an estimated 21 million gallons of defoliant, mostly Agent
Orange, over Vietnamese forests where they believed communist troops
might be hiding. [more]
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