[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, HEALTH: Oregon atomic veteran

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Keizer vet survived nuke testing

By JASON COX and ERIC A. HOWALD
Keizer Times (OR)
May 27, 2010

When he was a child in Wakefield, Kan., Lowell Gunselman's father  
often told him, "Live an adventurous life and you'll never have to  
tell a lie because you'll always have the truth to talk about."

In his 77 years, Gunselman has done his best to live by those words.

It's no small irony then that he’s spent the past two years trying to  
set the record straight about his experiences in the in the U.S.  
Navy. "We were just guinea pigs," Gunselman said. "didn't find that  
out until a year ago last September that it was classified as a human  
radiation experiment. I cried, I was so angry. When you take into  
consideration all the things that happened in Nevada and New Mexico,  
and all those guys are dead - from the early testing that was done on  
land - it really is a sad scenario.'

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For the entire article, see
http://keizertimes.com/?p=7789

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