Re: [CPEO-MEF] NY Guardsmen and DU dust - in court

["Stella Bourassa" <Stellalogic@cfl.rr.com>]

This article strikes at one of the many dangers of ordnance to humans and
the environment and cover ups by the military regarding the same.

I can attest to the disabilities suffered by the offspring of those who
served with honor and integrity while working with severely disabled
children with two examples.  One was a beautiful little girl born with the
appearance of 'normalcy' to a couple after he returned from the first Iraq
war.  She grew progessively worse with each passing year, her parents taking
her to the best hospitals in the nation.  Today she is a teenager, severely
disabled with 'no diagnosis' regarding her physical and mental condtions.
Her parents finally 'pieced it together' the last couple of years with his
service in the Gulf.

The second was a beautiful little girl born on the Marshall Islands (one of
our 'favorite' nuclear testing sites) and adopted by a couple stateside.
She was a perfect little girl, completely normal minus the fact of having no
eyes.  This is unheard of 'medically' for with such a devastating disablity
comes several others (which we had such a little girl born in the USA and
who did indeed have several other disablities along with the lack of her
eyes).  This couple goes to the Marshall Islands often and have shared how
the newborns are suffering with greater disabilites at birth-one in
particular is 'jelly bones'.

As 'graphic' as this may sound, it's 'mild' compared to the other defects
I've seen and heard about.  For me, chemical contamination was never 'just
about' new and better technology-it was about the people who suffered from
the effects.

I often mull over 'pick your battles carefully'-what other battles are going
to be waged due to the choices being made today by our government and
military?

Stella
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lenny Siegel" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: "Military Environmental Forum" <military@list.cpeo.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 2:06 AM
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] NY Guardsmen and DU dust - in court


> Justice for G.I.s?
>
> Juan Gonzalez
> New York Daily News
> September 8, 2006
>
> Three years after returning from Iraq with persistent ailments they
> believe were caused by inhaling uranium dust from exploded U.S. shells,
> a group of former New York National Guardsmen finally got their first
> day in court this week against the federal government.
>
> In a two-hour hearing late Wednesday before Manhattan Federal Judge John
> Koeltl, lawyers for the eight veterans argued that the Army caused the
> soldiers' illnesses when it violated its own safety protocols and
> exposed them to radioactive depleted-uranium dust.
>
> Army doctors also covered up information about any exposures and failed
> to provide the soldiers proper medical treatment, the lawyers claimed.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/450535p-379084c.html
>
> -- 
> Lenny Siegel
> Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
> c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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