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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:29:09 +0200
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On 23 Feb 2025 15:56:12 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

>Agent Orange as well as napalm were never intended to be used the way they
>wound up.  Agent Orange was mostly 2,4-D and the notion is that it was going
>to be a non-toxic way to expose the HCM trail so Americans could at least
>determine the amount of traffic coming down from the north and maybe stop it.
>Napalm was also originally intended as a defoliant for more rapid spot use.

I recall reading in "Popular Mechanics" back in the early 1950ws about
the uses of napalm in the Korean War. A particularly vivid memory was
a diagram showing the effects of dropping it at either entrance of a
railway tunnel with the train inside. If the people on the train
didn't burn to death, they would suffocate from lack of oxygen as the
napalm consumed it all. 


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