Question

Effects of vietnam war on people's health and lives

Answer 1

Vietnamese war lasted a devastating affect on Vietnamese and the US. US had lost hundreds of thousands of troops while most of the fighting took place in Vietnam, as a consequence Vietnamese land and people paid a much heavier price for the war. An estimated 4 million Vietnamese were killed or wounded on both sides of the conflict, including as many as 1.3 million civilians in South Vietnam.

Much of the death and destruction resulted from bombing also chemical weapons that left the land Barren for coming hundreds of years and people of surrounding areas underwent radioactive mutations in their DNA thereby leaving defective lineage behind them.

Loss of habitat and forest fires, spoiling resources and wildlife were in amass. The affect of 14 million ton of explosives could be seen in region even a now which leaves the water around the are of biological weapons unfit for usage. The United states ruined the south Vietnam's social fabric.

According to the US the forests provided hiding place for guerilla warfare and the lush green country side provided a good food source for the Vietnamese soldiers. Seeing logic in their following actions they started periodic bombings and rained heavy artillery on the country farmers in coming years.

The fact that the state's troops used an average of 142 pounds of explosives per acre of land in the region during war time is self-explanatory. The damage that the land would befall was obviously not a concern but the food supply apparently was. "From the air some areas in Vietnam looked like photographs of the moon," researchers Arthur H. Westing and E. W. Pfeiffer wrote in Scientific American.

18 million gallons of herbicide containing dioxins were sprayed on some six million acres—around one-seventh of South Vietnam's total land area, which was most fertile cropland and richest forests,"

John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran who later became a U.S. senator. "They only wanted to work in rice paddy fields without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart."

Later after war US realised that the act was unnecessary and the harm done to Vietnam was in noway beneficial to the US or their ally. But it ruined the land, forest, fields, people, wildlife, resources of a thriving country in the name of bringing order the land. The Vietnam that was amongst countries with richest flora and fauna would later be called "GREY PORRIDGE" after US had so called maintained law and order in the vicinity.