Viet Nam

At 17 YO I ended up Here & ended up in Quang Tri
Quang Tri lies just 30 kilometres north of the McNamara Line and 60 kilometres to the west of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the most heavily bombed area in the war.
Quang Tri province was one of the most heavily sprayed areas of Vietnam
Do Duc Duyen was born with two heads and is blind, deaf and utterly helpless. The war hasn't ended for some
1950 we sent Military advisors till the end of the war in 1975

The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both sides, 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S. soldiers.

Ford desperately asked Congress for funds to assist and re-supply the South before it was overrun. Congress refused. The fall of Phouc Binh and the lack of an American response left the South Vietnamese elite demoralized and corruption grew rampant.

n 1995, the Vietnamese government reported that its military forces, including the NLF, suffered 1.1 million dead and 600,000 wounded during Hanoi's conflict with the United States. Civilian deaths were put at two million in the North and South

As of 2006, the Vietnamese government estimates that there are over 4,000,000 victims of dioxin poisoning in Vietnam, although the United States government denies any conclusive scientific links between Agent Orange and the Vietnamese victims of dioxin poisoning. In some areas of southern Vietnam dioxin levels remain at over 100 times the accepted international standard.