Camp Lejeune's ex-residents, many ill, only now learning of toxic water

[unhappycamper]

Camp Lejeune's ex-residents, many ill, only now learning of toxic water
By Barbara Barrett, McClatchy Newspapers
Stars and Stripes online edition, Sunday, February 14, 2010

WASHINGTON — Paul Akers was in his oncologist's office last summer when his adult daughter handed him a magazine.

He saw a half-page ad from the Marine Corps, alerting former residents of Camp Lejeune, N.C., that if they lived on the base between 1957 and 1987, they might have been exposed to contaminated water.

Akers thought about his mother, the wife of a Marine, who died in 1960.

He remembered his little sister, whom he called Penny. She died of cancer in June at 61. She'd been diagnosed last spring, when she went in to be tested as a bone marrow match for her ailing brother. She was dead within a month.

Akers thought, too, of his own struggle, undergoing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68028

[ensho]

1. Justice is needed here

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[TexasObserver]

2. Recommend

[eppur_se_muova]

3. TCE was the contaminant in the Woburn, MA leukemia cluster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Civil_Action

[Nikki Stone1]

4. I wonder if this was some kind of "experiment" like a lot of the crap that the military

did in the 50s and 60s. God help these people and I hope they get the best lawyers. They're going to need them.

[thotzRthingz]

5. K&R ... thanks! my neighbor spent two years there (late 60s), and has NOT heard about this! (n/t)