Task 1 for elearning

This small poem speaks of a modern day ingredient of warfare that has caused appalling death and suffering – not only to its intended victims, the Vietnamese people, but also the service personnel that used or even just came into contact with “Agent Orange”.
The poem show that the poet does not like and feel a deep distaste for how the chemicals were used in the war, which cause the death and damage to the innocents of Vietnam. In the poem, the chemical called Agent Orange is mentioned. This is the same chemical which has caused the poet many health problems. The poet now has health problems which started approximately 15 years ago with unexplained headaches and limb pains. Afew years later, years ago his central nervous system radically deteriorated with Parkinsonian type tremors, severe headaches, progressive limb pains. The auothor’s guess is the heavily contaminated drinking water at Shemya during my year there as an intelligence analyst. Organo-phosphate toxins may not run their toxic course until 20 to 30 years after initial exposure.