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Photo Exhibition Orange: Goro Nakamura Photo Exhibition February to June 2007, the president’s gallery of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York 　 →Introduction of N.Y. Photo Exhibition ORANGE Please click on this link 　 　 　32 years has past since the Vietnam War ended. However, the scars of “Operation Ranch Hand” [the operation of spraying herbicides] are hardly cured. They remain in people from both sides of the conflict. During the war, the Vietnam Liberation Forces (Vietcong) practiced guerrilla warfare, operating in the jungles. In response to this, the U.S. forces destroyed jungles by spraying Agent Orange. Operation Ranch Hand spanned the decade from 1961 to 1971. This resulted in the destruction of the 40-percent of the mangrove jungles in Vietnam. After defoliation with Agent Orange they became deserts. However the story of this environmental tragedy did not end simply with the destruction of the ecosystems in the affected areas. After the war people who were exposed to Agent Orange during the war continued to suffer adverse effects from the Dioxin in the defoliant. Exposure to Dioxin contaminated not only the Vietnamese, but also U.S. soldiers and their allies who were exposed to do it. I met many children with congenital disabilities in Vietnam just after the war ended (1975). In 1995, twenty years after I first met them, I tracked them down and was reunited with them. Gradually, the scars and traces of the war are fading away from the landscapes in Vietnam. Nevertheless, the mark of Agent Orange was still so vivid in Vietnam, even in the United States and Korea too.

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