#vietnam

Much of my early career was spent working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever discovered, dioxin and aflatoxin. I initially worked at MIT, where I was assigned a chicken feed puzzle. Millions of chicks a year were dying from an unknown toxic chemical in their feed, and I had the responsibility of isolating and determining the structure of this chemical. After two and a half years, I helped discover dioxin, arguably the most toxic chemical ever found. This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or Agent Orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War." T.Colin Campbell ↗

— T. Colin Campbell

#agent-orange #dioxin #vietnam-war #diet

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew. ↗

— Karl Marlantes

#music #vietnam-war #death

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bill clinton #chance #clinton #convention #during

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#because #i #opposed #proud #vietnam

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#nation #vietnam #will #win

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#heroes #hitters #me #realize #really

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#could #day #draft #end #floored

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. ↗

— James Stockdale

#bomb #circumstances #dropped #experienced #first