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Photo Issue: After Agent Orange
Autumn Sage King | December 6In 1969 my grandfather, Charles Love Mullins V, was deployed to Vietnam. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft maintenance officer. During that time, the military was using Agent Orange to poison trees and shrubbery so that the Viet Cong could be easily spotted and tracked, but the United States was unaware of the life-changing effects this chemical would have on its own members. In 2003 my grandfather retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which was most likely caused by his exposure to Agent Orange.
