Reply #40: Thank you for bringing in another aspect of the horrors of the poison.

[troubleinwinter]

I looked at "graphic" photos tonight from another thread showing the disfigurement, birth defects, retardation caused by Agent Orange. Many on DU cannot look at such photos. I can, because the children look exactly like Navajo children born of uranium poisoning that I have seen in person with my own eyes. Looking at photos doesn't compare with sitting with families in their homes seeing the children and young people. The photos looked the same as photos of deformed damaged children in Iraq, as a result of Depleted Uranium.

Nuclear/Uranium is not "clean". It is death and horror from the moment it is taken from the earth, to when it is "depleted".

Largely, it was the Navajo who dug the uranium for the government now used in Iraq. Death from beginning to end.

Many of the Navajo have said to me that their traditions and elders have said "Do not disturb the earth. Do not bring up what belongs down there." Planting beans or squash in several inches of soil, or poking a hole to plant a corn is different to them than upheaving the earth. Their traditions admonished them not to do it. I don't know what to make of this, but know that a great many were very much opposed to mining for this reason. Many who supported mining have seen the terrible damage to land and people and now want to return to these traditional views.

Considering the economic hardship and unemployment among the people, and the offer of "riches" by the uranium mining operators wanting to resume mining, the opposition by the tribe is very telling of the damage suffered.

Thank you again for reminding us of further horror of this poison in D.U. It's hard for me to much distinguish between the results of Agent Orange, uranium mining and Depleted Uranium. They all harm and kill innocents in the most horrible of ways.