From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:47:09 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, VOCs: "Marine veterans petition for medical health registry for Camp Lejeune [NC] toxic water victims" |
Marine veterans petition for medical health registry for Camp Lejeune toxic water victims By Greg Barnes North Carolina Health News March 16, 2021 In the yellowed photograph from 1968, a young Lisette Partain sits on a hospital bed cradling her newborn baby. A glass of water and a partially filled baby bottle rest on a bedside table. Mike Partain, the infant in the picture, believes his misery began at conception Although it wouldn’t manifest itself for decades, Partain believes the water glass and the baby bottle contained toxins that for years had been leaching into the drinking water for Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville. Partain, like hundreds of thousands of other people, drank and bathed in the water, never having any knowledge of the toxins it contained. Thirty-nine years after his birth, doctors diagnosed Partain with male breast cancer, a rare disease, especially for someone so young. The cancer remains in remission today, only after a radical mastectomy, months of chemotherapy treatments and a lifetime of continued suffering. … For the entire article, see https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/03/16/marine-veterans-petition-for-medical-health-registry-for-camp-lejeune-toxic-water-victims/ — 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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