Former Camp Lejeune residents express anger

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Ex-base residents want wider water probe 

ERIC STEINKOPFF 
Jacksonville Daily News
June 25, 2004 

An angry group of about 50 former Camp Lejeune residents Thursday called
for the government to broaden the scope of its investigation into
health-related problems stemming from contaminated drinking water
discovered at Camp Lejeune in 1980. 

One by one, men and women - many of them former Marines - stood and
spoke to the four-member fact-finding panel assigned by the Marine Corps
to look into actions surrounding the contamination and 1985 closure of
wells in base housing areas. 

The criticism included stinging words from former residents like Ellen
Harris of Fort Plain, Ga., who lived in military housing at Camp Lejeune
for about five years. She came to Jacksonville for Thursday's hearing. 

"In the private sector this would be a felony ? leaving people injured,
sick and dying," Harris said. "We all looked like we had the mange." 

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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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