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Post: Camp Lejeune's water blamed for ills
Posted by Deborah on 6/12/07

MSNBC.com

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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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