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__ History agent orange research  __ __ In formations at the beginning of the video: __ Hello everyone. Today we are going to see something really important in the Vietnam. AGENT ORANGE. Agent Orange is the nickname for an [|herbicide] and [|defoliant]. 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, so during all of the war 400,000 deaths, and 500,000 children born with birth defects because the agent orange. You have to realize that the Agent Orange is a big problem in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 12,000,000 US gallons (45,000,000 liters) of chemical defoliants in South Vietnam as part of the aerial defoliation program known as [|Operation Ranch Hand]. Now can you open your book on page 475 and do exercise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 about Agent Orange. __ End of the video when jongsoo wake up: __ Jongsoo, JONGsoo, JOONGSOO WAKE UP. So let’s take a break of the exercise. I am going to explain you a bit more about the impact of the Agent Orange on the people and also on the environment. First you have to know why the American sprayed so much Agent Orange during the war. In Vietnam there are lots of forest, its mean lots of trees and plants where the Vietnamese soldier can hid easily. So the American wanted to find something that make that they can not hid anymore. So they started to sprays lots of Agent Orange every where. On the trees, the plants, the farms, the river… the American didn’t really care about the bad effects, they just wanted that all of the forest were destroy and then they can not find and kill easily the Vietnamese soldiers. But the problem is that they didn’t do that really well and they sprayed a bit every where. So the people still drink the water from the river but they didn’t know that the Agent Orange were in the river. Also they still eat their food from the farms even if they American sprayed Agent Orange. In the river there were almost not foods. The Agent Orange killed almost all of the fish and also 2 different animals were extinct because the agent orange (crocodile, tiger). After the war in 1971 the entire mangrove disappeared. In 1972 the mangrove start to grow in flooded areas as chemical started to wash away by the water but later destroyed by the local people for cooking fuel. By 1996 35,000 ha of mangrove forest were replanted about 20,000 ha are now growing well. - Do u have any questions? - Jongsoo: now we are talking about the effect on the environment but what’s happened to the Vietnamese people. How do they live that? do the American give money to the Vietnamese ? The biggest problem with the Agent Orange is how it’s effect the people. The problem is that all of the guys ( soldiers, family, children) were sprayed by agent orange or ate their food who has been in contact with the agent orange or drink water from the river with agent orange in has been affected but the problem is that is these people who will get problem but their children. Their children will get lots of problem like birth defects, cancer, brain damages. The Vietnamese doesn’t lots of money to educate their children sick. But the American doesn’t want to give money to them because they said that it’s their faults. Lots of people write letter one of these letters is from a girl who her daughter is paralyzed and the problem is that her family doesn’t have lots of money so she can not really give her the good help. So as we can see lots of people are suffering because the Agent Orange and the American don’t want to help them. - Please can you continue the exercises at page 475. - jongsoo fail asleep again. End