Read some letters

The Danang Quang Nam Fund has been collecting and translating letters from people affected by Agent Orange in Vietnam. Thus far, they have received over 4,000, mostly from Thai Binh province.

Go have a read. They are heart-wrenching.

Here's an excerpt from one:

However, after coming back from the war we had one more child in 1980. Unfortunately, she was abnormal. She's only 13 kilos weight, keeps crying days and nights. I went to have her cured, but it was useless because the doctors all said that she was born mentally retarded. She was blind, paralyzed. She realized nothing about the world around her. I was so sad to know that dioxin from her father's body had passed to hers causing her diseases.

Now she is 25 years old, but she is only a child. She knows nothing except crying. I have to help her with everything in her daily activities. My family, therefore, meets with too many difficulties.