[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) vet receives full disability

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lejeune veteran receives full disability on contaminated water claims

HOPE HODGE
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
March 15, 2010

A former Camp Lejeune Marine suffering from a rare blood disease last 
week became one of a small number of veterans to receive full disability 
due to historical water contamination.

Braintree, Mass., resident Paul Buckley said he was shocked after 
multiple claim denials from the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
discover a packet in his mailbox granting his claim in full.

"I opened it up and almost fell to the ground," he said.

The victory comes after a long and harrowing journey for the 46-year-old 
veteran. On May 10, 2006, more than 20 years after Buckley’s contract 
with the Marine Corps ended, he became rapidly ill, driving himself to 
the hospital before collapsing in its emergency room. He was in a coma 
for 10 days.

Buckley, then 42, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an uncommon and 
largely incurable form of cancer that typically afflicts a far different 
demographic.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/full-73912-veterans-claim.html

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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
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