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| | R.E.M. Lyric Annotations FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | It derives (at least in part) its title from Agent Orange, a chemical dropped on the forests of Vietnam as a defoliant to reveal enemy positions and roads. |
 | | Environmentally speaking, it was a huge disaster, directly affecting pristine tropical rain forest in ways napalm never could--literally killing off a good deal of unique flora and fauna, as well as polluting streams and rivers, eventually winding up in the bodies of native Vietnamese. |
 | | I don't have statistics, but I do know that in some parts of Vietnam, incidences of miscarriage and spine and neural defects are (or were) so common, that populations have declined. |
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