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Article: Agent Orange effects detailed in film Friday
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- Charleston Gazette
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- April 17, 2008
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"The Last Ghost of War," a new independent film about long-term
health damages from Agent Orange and dioxins, will have its first
showing in the Appalachian region Friday evening at South
Charleston's LaBelle Theater.
The 57-minute film interviews American veterans from the Vietnam
War, Vietnamese people whose towns were sprayed with Agent Orange in
the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as local workers who
produced the chemicals at Monsanto's Nitro plant, which is now
closed.
Janet Gardner, the film's producer, met and photographed children
in Vietnam who suffer missing limbs, enlarged heads and bulging
eyes.
The Rev. Jim Lewis said West Virginia Patriots for Peace ...