| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Fri, 24 Mar 2017 22:47:07 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] HELATH, VOCs: "Lejeune [NC] vets seeing effects of water contamination" |
MILITARY UPDATE: Lejeune vets seeing effects of water contamination by Tom Philpott Montgomery Advertiser March 24, 2017 The Marine Corps has begun outreach to hundreds of thousands of veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., at least 30 days from August 1953 to December 1987, inviting them or surviving spouses to file for VA compensation if veterans suffered one of eight ailments linked to water contamination on the base. On Wednesday, the Corps sent an email “blast” to more than 120,000 Lejeune veterans who had shared current online addresses on a registry created to identify and educate potential victims of polluted drinking water at Lejeune over a 34-year period, in an era that ended 30 years ago. … For the entire article, see http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/dispatch/2017/03/24/military-update-lejeune-vets-seeing-effects-water-contamination/99577602/ -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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