agent orange was a chemical the foil and that was used during the vietnam war and wanted to foil an iss it is sprayed either by airplane or by hand and on vegetation and it immediately grows up the vegetation kills it within twenty four hours and they used it in the vietnam war to around bases but it was also used to disrupt food supply and so it had a devastating impact on the vietnam on the american soldiers on the vietnamese soldiers both north and south vietnamese and the civilians that lived in the area so my dad served in long been  nothing like that so we think that that possibly could have been his first exposure when my dad came back from the war he almost immediately developed hypertension which you know know really family history of that he was a my dad went to work one day and felt like he had maybe like an ammonia at the chest cold so he went to the work infirmary and they took one look at him and shipped them up to the hospital and at the hospital is told that he had five hours to live unless he had a make major heart surgery so he had five bypasses done on his heart when he was only thirty eight years old at age forty he developed diabetes at age forty eight he had a stroke and at age fifteen he died of a massive heart attack and he died new brunswick canada and they were spraying agent orange white and all the rest of them there it was dead brush and the president sprayed but we were never again exercise called exercise just kind of gets worse over and over again i don't have anything physically wrong for me right now as we know know you my mom didn't acquire any of these cancers until she was and her mid thirty's it's that's really believing her life you know they said life without the struggle she would she would die so you know it's not so much about the money it's not really the money that want it's to help the more that people know about it the more people want to get involved in the more people that get involved the more things are going to get done by you know like it's sad to say that one person's not going to really make a difference in this case it's going to be a lot of people coming together you know to make one in the past peaceful has worked with survivors from vietnam to raise awareness of the harm that agent orange continues to cause people even today that this is the first time that we've had to be generations of survivors china someone from countries outside of only about the going to change is agent orange also to raise awareness about the enormous difficulties the survivors often face when trying to get even basic support for their needs they have also been working very closely with  with you have polls problems and you want to know where these came from because there's no hereditary problems for me to my big break news why is the former chemical weapons company controlling our orange educators of the march against monsanto i tried to get a speaker i was a survivor they don't like using the word victim because they are survivors of agent orange to come and speak unfortunately the cause problems that they against humanity monsanto and six other chemical companies have gotten away with murder for the last fifty years the weapon used to most prominently journal vietnam war was agent orange is second only to radioactive waste during the vietnam war era a month santa produced agent orange at one thousand times greater the potency than any of the other chemical companies hundreds of thousands globally have died including members of children of vietnam veterans  and will continue to die drastically before the average human lifespan others have reported up to eight hundred illnesses to their databases you can look them up support them learn about them whatever triple w dot c o t imagine what happens not only to my body or body and generally healthy body but a body that's already exposed to agent orange that consumes these g m o pesticides and food in a nutshell agent orange was in essence the chicken before the g m ok as i said before for the last fifty years monsanto has gotten away with this crime if there is no unity between organizations fighting for agent orange justice and those fighting for the labeling and banning of channels how many more years do you think it will take before you see a change the answer can simply only be one way to many on a daily basis vietnam veterans health alliance receives e mails from children of vietnam vets the wives and widows and the veterans are some of theirs clips of their stories the first survivor says please if you can help me please i'm only thirty six and still have a life ahead of me but every time i turn around something with my home hits me in the face survivor number two i have several issues that are unexplainable and they're all i think they're related to my dad getting injured or i'm stumped on him in vietnam i have questions and i don't know what to do next one says my father is receiving v a benefits for neuropathy and some other issues that i'm not sure of he served in vietnam and has has told us stories of how the water barrel that they used for their shower was actually an agent orange drum i may never be normal again i haven't been able to work and feel the last six months of my life has been basically stolen my father was exposed to agent orange he died of liver found in leukemia and now i have cancer tumors which are rare malignant types that lead to a hist agent orange my son has some of the things there on the list of illnesses but his two children have even more illnesses that he does i didn't put it together with agent orange until recently after several tests it was determined that she had a high profile pituitary gland was not functioning she was also showing no signs of puberty my husband and i have both been confused as to how our daughter's billions foreign seems to poll making her stomach stick out our oldest daughter was born in  seventy and diagnosed with a lazy eye when she was six she also suffered from fertility issues as an adult our youngest daughter also had fertility issues and suffers from doubled our syndrome and has had asthma since a young child my dad was in vietnam and exposed to agent orange i was born to congenital heart defects i was born with a collapsed aortic valve and i have only two of the three valves on the top of the heart there is no name for what that is i had open heart surgery and night surgery in hundred seventy eight so i would not die i'm supposed to have surgery again to replace the stent that is keeping my character out of the open they saved my life just at the age of six my oldest daughter who turned thirty this year has had a lot of health the worst was about two and a half years ago she was pregnant with her first child there were complications and they discovered that she had a cyst the size of a baseball they operated on her move the cyst my grandson was born two months premature and and none of this stuff scares you yet and i don't want to be the doom and gloom type person but that's the reality of aids there is the issue of what we're eating right now and we may not see these problems but this stuff happened in saturday late sixty's early seventy's this is the same stuff about putting on our food and you know if any of you guys have been to vietnam and have done some traveling there and seen some of the people there with the facts missing limbs not only just the things that you