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Agent Orange Agent Orange Growing up in central Minnesota in a small family, you realize how important family is to you. So when you lose one of these family members, it’s a hard hit. You soon realize that blood is blood and that sometimes it is the only thing that matters. During the beginning of this past spring, I found out that my uncle Eager at age 62 had bone cancer. At first you think, yeah 62 is getting up there in age and things start to break down. But my uncle was not at all in bad shape. This was a man that still took trips camping and went out canoeing in the boundary waters. But with bone cancer everything changed. His weight went from 210 at his height down to 135 at his worst. To give you an idea of what he looked like, he looked like a man that just was rescued from Auschwitz during World War II. When standing next to his death bed, I wondered how many years he would have had left if what happened in Vietnam would have been prevented. In 1967 to 1968, the US forces were taking heavy casualties because of the Vietnamese guerilla government, orange, agent, because, veterans, uncle, own, out, effects, knew, companies, chemical, sued, people, first, family, evidence, before, war, vietnamese, vietnam, vegetation, various, truth, tried, think, tell, reason, realize, over, million, long, know, found, cancer