Former Captain Thomas E. Ragland died.

November 2, 2011 - Army Admits they poisoned him.


They are starting to admit it - our Vietnam Era veterans are not getting any younger. They need restitution and they need it now. They also need to NOT be ignored and told its pneumonia when it's a type of lung cancer related directly to Agents Blue and White.

The compound, 2,4-D, was a major component of Agent Orange.

Now that plants have developed resistance to Monsanto's chemical herbicide Roundup (glyphosphate), Monsanto and Dow have teamed up to create Roundup Plus, which adds 2,4D to glyphosphate. Also genetically modified soybean plants that are resistant to 2,4-D.

Quote from Business Week article: (Link below)

"Crops engineered to tolerate 2,4-D have come under attack by activists partly because the chemical is one of the two herbicides comprising Agent Orange. Dow’s Resler-Friend said it was 2,4,5-T, the other chemical in the defoliant used during the Vietnam war, that was a health concern and it hasn’t been produced in 25 years."

Link
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-09/monsanto-dow-modified-crops-to-get-expedited-reviews-by-u-dot-s-dot

Maybe Agent Orange allegedly "hasn't been produced", but I know for a fact that lawn companies are using 2,4-D to control lawn weeds. When my daughter was in elementary school, about 20 years ago, I drove past the school bus stop where she and other kids were waiting, and saw a lawn company guy spraying something that was drifting over the kids. I got out and demanded to see what he was spraying. He showed me the list, and it included 2,4-D. I looked it up (back in the days before I had internet at home), found out how nasty it was, and raised hell with the school system. They responded by ordering lawn companies not to spray if schoolchildren were in the area. Kids waiting for buses can't move away from these toxic sprays, and are too young to know what they are, or what they can do.

He never used pesticides. When everyone else was getting their lawn sprayed or spraying it themselves he got out with a hand tools and dug up his weeds - and enjoyed seeing the birds eat on his lawn after the rain.

and the only herbicide I use is vinegar.