[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: Camp Lejeune (NC) "Marine Who Dumped Toxins Felt Illness Was Payback"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marine Who Dumped Toxins Felt Illness Was Payback

By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press
May 18, 2013 (AP)

Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a  
punishment.

As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the  
mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of  
gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before  
he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking  
water contamination in the country's history - and, perhaps, to his  
own premature death.

"It's just a terrible thing," the 58-year-old veteran told The  
Associated Press shortly before succumbing to esophageal cancer at a  
Cape Cod nursing facility on May 3.

"Once I found out, it's like, 'God! I added to the contamination.'"

...

For the entire article, see
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/marine-dumped-toxins-felt-illness- 
payback-19208011

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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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