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In 1982’s First Blood, Rambo asks a woman if she knows his friend who served with him in Vietnam. She tells Rambo his friend is dead saying, “Cancer. Must have got it in Vietnam. From the orange stuff they sprayed around there.” How well known were the effects of Agent Orange in the early 80s?

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In 1982’s First Blood, Rambo asks a woman if she knows his friend who served with him in Vietnam. She tells Rambo his friend is dead saying, “Cancer. Must have got it in Vietnam. From the orange stuff they sprayed around there.” How well known were the effects of Agent Orange in the early 80s?	1396