Agent Orange LbNA #15391
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 29, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Coventry |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Kim (Peaches)  |
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| Found by: | WWW |
| Last found: | Oct 28, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | May 29, 2005 |
**************DUE TO THIS BOX, AS HAVE OTHERS I HAVE PLACED BEING TAMPERED WITH AND MOVED WITHOUT PERMISSION, I HAVE PULLED THIS BOX FOR AT LEAST THE WINTER. IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE REPLACED IN THE SPRING OF 2006****************
Agent orange letterbox.
It is the war that won’t end. It is the war that continues to stalk and claim its victim’s decades after the last shots were fired. It is the war of rainbow herbicides; Agent Orange, Blue, White, Purple, Green and Pink.
This never ending legacy of the war in Vietnam, has created among many veterans and their families deep feelings of mis-trust of the U.S. government, for its lack of honesty in studying effects of the rainbow herbicides; particularly Agent Orange and the conscious effort to cover up the information and fix test results with which it does not agree.
Agent Orange contained Dioxin, a useless by product of production of the herbicide. A chemical the EPA would later call “one of the most potentially dangerous and perplexing” chemicals known to man. Less than 2 millionths of an ounce will kill a mouse.
On January 13th, 1962, 3 U.S. Air Force C-123’s left Tan son Nhut airfield to begin operation Hades, (Later called Operation Ranch Hand). The chemicals were labeled as follows: Agent Blue (contained arsenic), Agent White, Agent Purple and the lethal combination of 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T; Agent Orange. Over the next 9 years, 12 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed throughout Vietnam. The military sprayed herbicides in Vietnam 6-25 times the rate suggested by the manufacturer.
When the men in the fields saw the effects of this chemical on vegetation and questioned its effects on them, they were told not to worry. They were told that it was not harmful to humans. The soldiers would shower and change clothes, but the residue was in and on everything; dust, contaminated water, their clean clothes. Not only was Agent Orange being sprayed by the C-123”s, but because fuel was being stored along with oil in the empty chemical containers; by 1969 it was being sprayed thru the exhausts of Jeeps, Trucks and generators. The use of Agent Orange was finally ended in 1971. Little too little too late. Agent Orange is responsible for many debilitating and life taking ailments; of which today the government takes its time to act on. This box is in memory of not just one special soldier or sailor, but for all the soldiers and sailors of that war and their families.
Robert B.
12/05/1947 - 05/28/2005
This stamp is placed here because Robert spent time here hiding his beer with his high school buddies in the back wall. This was my uncle, my mothers brother.
From Rt. 44-A in Coventry, take Silver Str. to the end. At the intersection of South Street & Silver Street, take a right onto South Street for 0.02 miles and park by the small grave-yard on the left.
Enter the cemetary through the opening in the stone wall and go straight back to the back wall. Turn left at the wall and head towards the corner. Find the Lyman family head stone, find F.O.L. and stand with that stone against your left ankle. Count 4 paces (Left footfall) to the wall. Take one side step to the right. In front of you will be a flat stone on top. Carefully remove it to find your quest.When your done rehide well and make sure you get the clues for Eternal Love and the John Wayne Series.
Peaches, Bear, and my mom "E" (Elaine)
Agent orange letterbox.
It is the war that won’t end. It is the war that continues to stalk and claim its victim’s decades after the last shots were fired. It is the war of rainbow herbicides; Agent Orange, Blue, White, Purple, Green and Pink.
This never ending legacy of the war in Vietnam, has created among many veterans and their families deep feelings of mis-trust of the U.S. government, for its lack of honesty in studying effects of the rainbow herbicides; particularly Agent Orange and the conscious effort to cover up the information and fix test results with which it does not agree.
Agent Orange contained Dioxin, a useless by product of production of the herbicide. A chemical the EPA would later call “one of the most potentially dangerous and perplexing” chemicals known to man. Less than 2 millionths of an ounce will kill a mouse.
On January 13th, 1962, 3 U.S. Air Force C-123’s left Tan son Nhut airfield to begin operation Hades, (Later called Operation Ranch Hand). The chemicals were labeled as follows: Agent Blue (contained arsenic), Agent White, Agent Purple and the lethal combination of 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T; Agent Orange. Over the next 9 years, 12 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed throughout Vietnam. The military sprayed herbicides in Vietnam 6-25 times the rate suggested by the manufacturer.
When the men in the fields saw the effects of this chemical on vegetation and questioned its effects on them, they were told not to worry. They were told that it was not harmful to humans. The soldiers would shower and change clothes, but the residue was in and on everything; dust, contaminated water, their clean clothes. Not only was Agent Orange being sprayed by the C-123”s, but because fuel was being stored along with oil in the empty chemical containers; by 1969 it was being sprayed thru the exhausts of Jeeps, Trucks and generators. The use of Agent Orange was finally ended in 1971. Little too little too late. Agent Orange is responsible for many debilitating and life taking ailments; of which today the government takes its time to act on. This box is in memory of not just one special soldier or sailor, but for all the soldiers and sailors of that war and their families.
Robert B.
12/05/1947 - 05/28/2005
This stamp is placed here because Robert spent time here hiding his beer with his high school buddies in the back wall. This was my uncle, my mothers brother.
From Rt. 44-A in Coventry, take Silver Str. to the end. At the intersection of South Street & Silver Street, take a right onto South Street for 0.02 miles and park by the small grave-yard on the left.
Enter the cemetary through the opening in the stone wall and go straight back to the back wall. Turn left at the wall and head towards the corner. Find the Lyman family head stone, find F.O.L. and stand with that stone against your left ankle. Count 4 paces (Left footfall) to the wall. Take one side step to the right. In front of you will be a flat stone on top. Carefully remove it to find your quest.When your done rehide well and make sure you get the clues for Eternal Love and the John Wayne Series.
Peaches, Bear, and my mom "E" (Elaine)