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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Sam Hall and Vietnam
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:22:58 EDT
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Just a note about defoliated areas.  There does not seem to be
a long term effect on vegatation.  The vegatation recovered
the effects of agent orange quite rapidly.  On the other hand,
the jury is still out, in, out, in on the effects on humans and animals.
Agent Orange was used in this country also, to clear right-of-ways
along railroad tracks.  The railroads usually had to keep going
back and redoing the job as the toxins in the agent did not keep
new growth from springing up.  Even some trees, although losing
all of their foliage, would recover by the next growth cycle.
In Nam, they had to keep going back to the same areas as the
vegatation regrew.