Reliving Agent Orange: Blue Water Navy Veteran Jim Kerr — Transcript

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1. 0:00one of the things that the the military
2. 0:01would do they would uh spray agent
3. 0:04orange and then about 2 to 3 days after
4. 0:07that they would follow it up to the
5. 0:08Napal
6. 0:11[Music]
7. 0:14attack and of course anybody that's ever
8. 0:16seen that knows that Napal is a was a
9. 0:19liquid a very highly flammable liquid
10. 0:22and the entire jungle was just explode
11. 0:24and it sent everything up into the air
12. 0:27the napon was bur everything the Adan
13. 0:29orange was just it would kill things but
14. 0:31it didn't destroy anything else it would
15. 0:33kill everything but trees were standing
16. 0:35things were just dead but the Napal
17. 0:38would actually
18. 0:40burn when it was sprayed and they
19. 0:42followed up with a Napal attack and we
20. 0:45were sitting oh I would say probably 100
21. 0:48yards off the coastline sometimes I mean
22. 0:50this stuff would go up in the air and I
23. 0:52don't believe that this stuff even on
24. 0:54board the ship uh when it went up in the
25. 0:57air went to the Shoreline and stopped
26. 1:00so I think it was in the water and board
27. 1:02ships I think it was in the air when you
28. 1:04were land on land or on ship so I think
29. 1:06anybody that was there was exposed to