Based on your understanding of the selected poem, perform extensive web research and write a report on your blog detailing the conflict represented in the poem(s) of your choice. Bear in mind that this piece of background information will allow your blog audience to further understand the poem as well as your analysis of the poem in Task 2.
Rainbow Death
America did not foresee
Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri!
Expecting others to pay a high price.
Now thinking twice?
Toll on the innocent and unborn.
Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn.
Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead.
All the deceit continues to spread.
Nefariously America led astray -
Generations untold WILL pay -
Execrable effects of agent orange spray!
Hubert Wilson
Hubert Wilson was a Vietnam War veteran who served in the USAF Security Service. The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. Along with a dozen intelligence school graduates, Hubert was assigned to Shemya Island, Alaskawhich, which was an Agent Orange hotspot.
About 15 years ago, Hubert’s health problems started with unexplained headaches and limb pains. His central nervous system radically deteriorated with Parkinsonian type tremors, severe headaches, progressive limb pains. No physician has ever diagnosed the specific illness but he guessed that it was because of the drinking water heavily contaminated with Agent Orange at Shemya during his year there as an intelligence analyst. The effects of Agent Orange only showed up 20 to 30 years after initial exposure.
So what is Agent Orange? I have done some research and Agent Orange is the code name for a herbicide and defoliant—contaminated with TCDD—used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam war, the United States military sprayed 12,000,000 US gallons of chemical defoliants in South Vietnam as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.The purpose of the product was to deny an enemy cover and concealment in dense terrain by removing leaves from trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide. It was principally effective against broad-leaf foliage, such as the dense jungle-like terrain found in Southeast Asia.
4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects like an extra toe or finger. It also caused other serious health problems like mental disabilities, hernias, skin diseases as well as a vast variety of cancers in the lungs, larynx( the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals)and prostate (a gland surrounding the neck of the bladder in male mammals and releasing prostatic fluid).
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