Miles. length and width. of what had been beautiful green forestland with humble homes of peasants were defoliated as our forces burned. destroyed. and poisoned the trees and foliage in the entire area. The land itself has been poisoned. Men. women. and children have been forcibly removed from their homes and most of them taken against their will. to miserable refugee camps. socalled. Some of our refugee camps with thousands of old men. women. and children herded together may not be as terrible as this gutted. seared. destroyed. land bereft of bushes and trees. but all except one refugee camp I saw were in exceedingly deplorable condition. Defoliation results in destroying crops and even foliage supplying food for water buffalo so greatly needed by Vietnamese farmers. Of course. many water buffalo and other livestock have been destroyed. We are not only destroying the meager food supply of Vietnamese civilians. but also leaving the earth sterile for future generations. Vietnam. once a beautiful green paradise. is being stripped of vegetation and crops. Unfortunately. men. women. and children trying to stay alive are being pushed closer to starvation or herded like animals into American refugee camps. It is difficult to visualize this burnedout. devastated land. The Saigon militarist regime shows little or no concern for the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have been wounded and maimed.