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Children with disabilities play in the courtyard of Vietnam Friendship Village outside Ha Noi.
They are some of the 100 children and 40 adults who live in the center which helps victims of Agent Orange, a deadly herbicide used extensively by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.
As the 40th anniversary of the end of the war approaches, a group of U.S. veterans and anti-war activists are visiting the facility to learn about the war's lingering effects.
Suel Jones served as a U.S. Marine during the war.
Suel Jones, Vietnam War Veteren and representative of the friendship village, saying: "I love being on this trip and sharing with my veteran friends. And not all these people fought in the war- many of these people fought against the war in the United States. They were anti-war people. So you have a, I was a marine, now we have marines and anti-war people working together to help these children. And that's what life is all about, giving back".
According to the Vietnamese government, the U.S. army sprayed about 75 million litres (20 million gallons) of dioxin herbicides over theVietnamese forests and jungles from 1962 to 1971.
They were successful in destroying large forest areas and exposed four million Vietnamese -- soldiers and civilians as well as their children and grandchildren -- to the toxic chemical.
Vocabulary
Agent Orange (n) /ˈeɪdʒənt/
Chất da cam
Herbicide (n) /´hə:bi¸said/
A chemical that is used to destroy plants, especially weeds
Thuốc diệt cỏ
Veteran (n) /ˈvɛtərən/
Someone who has been in the armed forces during a war
Cựu chiến binh
Lingering (adj) /ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ/
Lasting a long time
Kéo dài
Marine (n) /mə´ri:n/
A soldier who works closely with the navy and is trained especially for military operations on land that begin from the sea.
Lính thủy đánh bộ.
Grammar
"They were successful in destroying large forest areas and exposed four million Vietnamese -- soldiers and civilians as well as their children and grandchildren -- to the toxic chemical".
- Expose (v) means to make public something bad or dishonest. However, expose something to something, in this case, means to make contact. Example: expose the skins to the Sun.
- Động từ expose có nghĩa là phơi bày. Tuy nhiên, "expose something to something có nghĩa là phơi nhiễm, gây tiếp xúc. Ví dụ: Expose the skins to the sun: phơi nắng.
Thanh Bình (Video: Reuters)