http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LImmG5GBUUQ&feature=related
I feel like it's never enough to see movies about Agent Orange. No matter how many times I've seen them, every time watching is just as painful as the first time. Though this is a short documentary and made in Vietnamese, you can still grasp the horror that the herbicide has created through the clips of AO victims....
I realized many of my friends and acquaintances are not aware of this; others have heard of it but just ignore. And I don't blame them, because most of us do the same with issues that seem so out of reach and we don't believe that we can do anything to change them, or that there are already people out there working on them, so what's the point of having one additional hand!! Who can we blame when even us Vietnamese are ignorant to our own people?!?
Even me, I have been doing the same thing. 22 years old, I haven't done a truly meaningful thing to help these people that I really want to, other than some useless presentations in a few classes, and some insignificant donations. All I've got are visions and plans to empower them, and I've been waiting for the moment to go home to help them, which now I am not even sure will happen or not. But now I just realize that I can do a lot from here, too, to help not only over 4 million Vietnamese who are living in Vietnam and suffering from the consequences of Agent Orange, but also the thousands of American veterans from the Vietnam War who are also enduring.
And I realize I can actually start from now, by going to different places like schools, clubs, social organizations, etc. to talk about it; and among those who hear it, at least a few would do something to help. Besides, I've seen a lot about Vietnamese victims, but not nearly as much about American soldiers who were also victims, and I'm hoping to meet with some of them right here in Rochester. So aforementioned are my two summer resolutions! IF YOU KNOW OF ANY PLACE THAT MIGHT BE WILLING TO ENDORSE, PLEASE PLEASE LET THEM KNOW ABOUT MY INTENTIONS....
Here's another short film with testimonials of a former female Viet Cong who went through multiple miscarriages and suffered from more than one type of cancers, and whose husband died from multiple cancers, after both of them were exposed to AO during the war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2M4sFFKH34&feature=related
I feel like it's never enough to see movies about Agent Orange. No matter how many times I've seen them, every time watching is just as painful as the first time. Though this is a short documentary and made in Vietnamese, you can still grasp the horror that the herbicide has created through the clips of AO victims....
I realized many of my friends and acquaintances are not aware of this; others have heard of it but just ignore. And I don't blame them, because most of us do the same with issues that seem so out of reach and we don't believe that we can do anything to change them, or that there are already people out there working on them, so what's the point of having one additional hand!! Who can we blame when even us Vietnamese are ignorant to our own people?!?
Even me, I have been doing the same thing. 22 years old, I haven't done a truly meaningful thing to help these people that I really want to, other than some useless presentations in a few classes, and some insignificant donations. All I've got are visions and plans to empower them, and I've been waiting for the moment to go home to help them, which now I am not even sure will happen or not. But now I just realize that I can do a lot from here, too, to help not only over 4 million Vietnamese who are living in Vietnam and suffering from the consequences of Agent Orange, but also the thousands of American veterans from the Vietnam War who are also enduring.
And I realize I can actually start from now, by going to different places like schools, clubs, social organizations, etc. to talk about it; and among those who hear it, at least a few would do something to help. Besides, I've seen a lot about Vietnamese victims, but not nearly as much about American soldiers who were also victims, and I'm hoping to meet with some of them right here in Rochester. So aforementioned are my two summer resolutions! IF YOU KNOW OF ANY PLACE THAT MIGHT BE WILLING TO ENDORSE, PLEASE PLEASE LET THEM KNOW ABOUT MY INTENTIONS....
Here's another short film with testimonials of a former female Viet Cong who went through multiple miscarriages and suffered from more than one type of cancers, and whose husband died from multiple cancers, after both of them were exposed to AO during the war:
http://www.youtube.com/wat
