Agent Orange is a chemical sprayed on the jungles of Vietnam. It is something not only the people of Vietnam suffer through but so did our servicemen and women. It’s caused health issues that for some veterans are just popping up. Some say they're not getting the treatment for it. There were plenty of controversial aspects to the war in Vietnam. Agent Orange was one of them. It was sprayed by US forces in the jungles, trees, and vegetation. The idea was to destroy the forest the enemy used for cover. But the health effects of it turned out to be devastating.
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Pastor “Pat” Toro, a decorated Forest Hills war veteran and the former president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 in Queens, has lost his battle with Myelodysplastic syndrome.
Toro, 65, died Thursday morning at St. Francis Hospital after going through months of chemotherapy for his malady, a precursor to leukemia, which relatives said was brought on by Agent Orange exposure during his tour in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corp.
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Lenarcic knows about dioxin. It was a key ingredient of the
herbicide Agent Orange, used widely as a defoliant during the Vietnam
War and later linked to birth defects and cancers, including
non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Through the years, Lenarcic’s work with Vietnam
veterans, their exposure to Agent Orange and its after-effects have
topped his list of concerns.
In the 1940s and
50s, the government experimented with Agent Orange at several sites
across the country, one being Fort Drum — then called Camp Drum.
According to the Agent Orange Record, in 1959, 1,035 acres of sugar
maples and other hardwoods at the army base near Watertown in Jefferson
County were sprayed in a test to see how effective the herbicides were
against foliage.
According to the Aspen
Institute, an educational and policy studies organization, several U.S.
communities at or near Agent Orange manufacturing or storage sites
continue to report dioxin levels above recommended safety standards.
Among them is Fort Drum. Lenarcic suggests that the dioxin possibly
worked its way into the aquifer that serves the Kuyahoora Valley area.
