[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, HERBICIDES: "Toxic herbicides just the tip of contaminated iceberg for Guam veterans"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic herbicides just the tip of contaminated iceberg for Guam veterans
Contaminants were in the water veterans drank, in the air they breathed

by Steve Andrews
WFLA TV-8 NEWS (Tampa Bay, FL)
September 12, 2020

TAMPA, Fla. - Tens of thousands of military personnel supported the Vietnam War from Guam. And decades-old government reports confirm toxic herbicides are not the only trouble our veterans face.

“Many of these veterans who served at Guam are sick and ill and you owe it to them to find out what were they exposed to and help them,” veterans attorney Katrina Eagle said. “At Andersen Air Force Base it’s documented that TCE was there, PCE, Dioxin, 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T.”

From a wheelchair on his Lakeland lanai in 2017, a dying Leroy Foster shouldered the blame for spraying toxic herbicides around Andersen AFB, spreading contamination throughout the island.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/toxic-herbicides-just-the-tip-of-contaminated-iceberg-for-guam-veterans/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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