Monday, February 15, 2010

This really tips my rocker

Today my aunt informed my mother of an article, in the Ocala Star Banner, about the place my mother was born and where their family lived for quite awhile. My grandfather was a Marine(he passed away in January of 2001) and they lived in the housing of Tarawa Terrace, part of Camp Lejeune. In the article was information on water contamination. My mother never knew about this, so she asked my grandmother if she knew anything about the contamination. My grandmother had never heard about it. Apparently from 1957 to 1987 people who lived in this region drank, bathed, cooked their food, etc. etc. in contaminated water. My mother was, like I said, born here in 1960. She was born with a defect in her left eye and has never had vision in that eye. She has also dealt with cysts and unknown nodules. My grandfather had polyps covering his back and several other health conditions. My grandmother has had several operations on many organs. My mom's half brother had to have a large potion of lung removed, many years ago. My aunt and 2 uncles have many health problems. They all lived at this location. It's been 40+ years since they've lived there but they are just now finding out and by what I understand the Military is trying to say that there is NO connection between the contamination and illnesses, even death, of the families that inhabited this place. Do they seriously think people are that stupid?

Here are some links if you want to see more details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Lejeune
http://www.tftptf.com/
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/tce_pce.html
http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcquality/7pastcont6.html
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68028

There are also many more if you're interested, this is just a few.

1 comment:

  1. Why does this always happen? Years later, people develop health issues and the ones who caused it deny, deny, deny.

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