[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: "Poisoned at Camp LeJeune ..."

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Poisoned at Camp Lejeune, snookered by Uncle Sam

Bill Berlow
Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
March 28, 2008

Mike Partain, son and grandson of Marine Corps veterans, grew up steeped 
in traditional American values - a rock-solid Reagan Republican whose 
life, even before birth, began among the few, the proud, at Camp 
LeJeune, N.C.

But for the past year, the 40-year-old Tallahassee insurance claims 
adjuster's faith in his government has been shaken to its core.

He'd always assumed that Uncle Sam, first and foremost, had the health 
and welfare of U.S. citizens at the top of his priority list - 
especially if they'd worn the uniform.

Now he's much less sure.

Partain's crisis of doubt began a year ago, when his wife gave him "a 
hug that changed my life." She found a lump, which turned out to be a 
cancerous tumor. A 14-inch surgical scar where Partain's right breast 
used to be is the physical evidence of his breast cancer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080328/COLUMNIST01/803280345/1006/OPINION

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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