Just bits and pieced to this dream -It's probably nothing.
I was with my family, but I don't specially recall each individual. We looked up and saw an invasion of enemy troops dropping by parachute. Something odd was that I remember being able to see the tops of the chutes from the ground. They were brown and black with a pattern, maybe something like a leopard print, but not quite.
Next, they were closer to the ground but still in the air. Now instead of solders, they were a marching band playing their instruments and marching in the air as they descended.
Then we were in a large open room with a wall of glass and very large, open glass doors. We looked outside and saw the skyline turning orange. There were black letters in the sky warning that there was an "agent orange" attack. We knew it was a poisonous gas.
The dream changed and I had a baby. The baby may have been 6 months old or so. Darrell or someone had it in a pool in the back yard, but there was something in the water like pieces of slime, mildew, or specks of something. It was throughout the water and all over my baby. When the baby's head was lifted out of the water it spit or coughed out a large amount of the blueish green specks. I was horrified.
Agent Orange — or Herbicide Orange (HO) — is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand,[1] during theVietnam War from 1961 to 1971.[2] It was a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and2,4-D.
During the late 1940s and '50s, the US and British collaborated on development of herbicides with potential applications in warfare. Some of those products were brought to market as herbicides. The British were the first to employ herbicides and defoliants to destroy the crops, bushes, and trees of communist insurgents in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. These operations laid the groundwork for the subsequent use of Agent Orange and other defoliant formulations by the US.[3]
In mid-1961, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam asked the United States to conduct aerial herbicide spraying in his country. In August of that year, the South Vietnamese Air Forceinitiated herbicide operations with American help. But Diem's request launched a policy debate in the White House and the State and Defense Departments.[1] However, U.S. officials considered using it, pointing out that the British had already used herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s. In November 1961, President John F. Kennedy authorized the start of Operation Ranch Hand, the codename for the U.S. Air Force's herbicide program in Vietnam.
Agent Orange was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides".[4] The 2,4,5-T used to produce Agent Orange was contaminated with 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), an extremely toxic dioxin compound. In some areas, TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[5][6]
In the absence of specific customary or positive international humanitarian law regarding herbicidal warfare, a draft convention, prepared by aWorking Group set up within the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD), was submitted to the UN General Assembly in 1976. In that same year, the First Committee of the General Assembly decided to send the text of the draft convention to the General Assembly, which adoptedResolution 31/72 on December 10, 1976, with the text of the Convention attached as an annex thereto. The convention, namely the Environmental Modification Convention, was opened for signature and ratification on May 18, 1977, and entered into force in October 5, 1978. The convention prohibits the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects. Many states do not regard this as a complete ban on the use of herbicides and defoliants in warfare but it does require case-by-case consideration.[7][8]
Although in at the Geneva Disarmament Convention of 1978, Article 2(4) Protocol III to the weaponry convention has "The Jungle Exception" which prohibits states from attacking forests out jungles "except if such natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or military objectives or are military objectives themselves " this voids any protection of any military or civilians from a napalm attack or something like agent Orange and is clear that it was designed to cater to situations like U.S. tactics in Vietnam. This clause has still yet to be revised.
