[CPEO-MEF] Agent Orange in Southern Mississippi

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

THE EFFECT ORANGE 
Gulfport residents fear silent killer stalks them 

By GREG HARMAN 
THE SUN HERALD (MS)
September 12, 2004

GULFPORT - These are not new stories. The tales of sickness, misery and
death blamed by many families around the Naval Construction Battalion
Center in Gulfport on Agent Orange contamination have been passed back
and forth from front yards and over coffee shop countertops for decades.

"That whole neighborhood is dying over there, and it's not a quick,
painless death," said 33-year-old Stephanie Ragar, who grew up playing
at her grandparents' house two blocks from the base. "I watched my
mother throw up her liver in a trash can."

Federal and state regulators have been tracking and trying to clean up
Agent Orange pollution north of the base, first traced into neighborhood
ditches and streams in 1979, for years.

Suzanne Collum, who grew up a block north of the base, can cast her eye
almost in any direction on her old street and find them.

On her left is a father lost to cancer whose infant daughter was
diagnosed with childhood leukemia. On her right are two learning
disabled children. Collum's own children suffer from recurrent
reproductive problems.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/9642116.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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