Increase Agent Orange Awareness

The Dream Bridge Project exists to help bring attention to the ongoing consequences of Agent Orange.

During the Vietnam War, from 1966 until its use was suspended in 1971, Agent Orange was dropped "to destroy and deny cover for the enemy" (that is, to melt the impenetrable Vietnamese jungle in where troops would live, move and hide). Under the code name "Operation Ranch Hand," over twenty million gallons of Agent Orange were aerially sprayed over jungles, villages lakes and rivers. Millions of Vietnamese people were directly affected, and traces of the toxin remained in the air, soil, water and wildlife of the sprayed areas.

Deadly not only to plants, Agent Orange also contained dioxin, which is the most dangerous poison known to man. Dioxin does not occur naturally, but only comes into existence as a byproduct of certain man-made chemical processes. Its toxicity is so great that its presence is measured in picograms: millionths of millioths of a gram. Despite the awareness of its makers that Agent Orange contained this virulent toxin, the US government bought and sprayed Agent Orange with impunity until it was finally banned in 1971. When US soldiers and Vietnam veterans complained en masse about afflictions stemming from their exposure to Agent Orange during the war, a class-action lawsuit was filed on their behalf that was eventually settled out-of-court by the US government. To this day, the US government claims no liability toward the nation or people of Vietnam for its decision to bombard it with this poison.

Much more information about Agent Orange and its effects is available from the valuable websites listed below.

Wikipedia Description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

Map of Most Sprayed/Affected Areas in Vietnam:
http://www.lewispublishing.com/map1.htm
(click from there to other pages on this interesting site)

Powerful new 5 Minute Video from WorldFocus:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/16/agent-orange-devastates-g_n_158...

Extremely interesting Agent Orange Page, from
The US Veteran Dispatch: http://www.usvetdsp.com/agentorange.htm

Links to various Vietnamese Agent Orange Sites:
http://www.ffrd.org/agentorange.htm

Page from the American Cancer Society website:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_1_3x_Agent_Orange_and_Canc...

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - US Govt. Website:
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/herbicide/AOno3.htm