Posted by Deborah on 6/12/07

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Marines blame N.C. base’s water for health ills
Former residents claim tainted liquid caused cancer, birth
defects
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:52 a.m. CT June 12, 2007
ATLANTA - Thousands of Marines and their families went to
serve their country at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune.

Instead, many wound up fighting it, blaming the government
for failing to protect them from an enemy that invaded
their lives in a most intimate way: through the water that
quenched their thirst, cooked their food and filled their
bathtubs every day.

The gruff ex-drill instructor is angry leukemia claimed
his daughter, Janey. Parents were guilt-ridden that
perhaps their own actions had ruined their daughters’
health. An aging major still mourns the wife who shared
his torment over their baby’s fatal birth defects. A
former Navy doctor’s career was demolished by his rare
cancer....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19177607/

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