[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS: "NC native honors father with toxic exposure news site"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

NC native honors father with toxic exposure news site

By CALVIN SHOMAKER
Associated Press
May 16, 2021

CAPE CARTERET, N.C.  — When his father passed away from acute leukemia in 2008, Carteret County native Gavin Smith didn’t suspect it was related to toxic exposure.

Five years later, he found out it likely was.

Smith’s father, a U.S. Army veteran, was exposed to contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, where he worked as a civilian for 25 years. In 2014, a government study found civilians who worked at Camp Lejeune during the exposure period had a higher likelihood of dying from leukemia than civilian workers at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton without exposure.

“I think had it not been for this, he’d still be here,” Smith said, who honors his father’s memory with a nonprofit he started in 2013 called Civilian Exposure, a reader-supported website dedicated to toxic exposure in the military.

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For the entire article, see
https://greensboro.com/news/state/nc-native-honors-father-with-toxic-exposure-news-site/article_efc8787a-10c5-5cbd-a6b8-0552a1f39e2c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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