[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, VOCs: "Veteran drives to D.C. on Memorial Day weekend for Camp Lejeune [NC] water awareness"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Veteran drives to D.C. on Memorial Day weekend for Camp Lejeune water awareness

By Calvin Shomaker
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
June 3, 2021


U.S. Marine Corps veteran John Swartz is tired of being ignored.

“I’m tired of being forgotten,” Swartz said. “I’m disabled, I’m sick and I’m dying, and nobody does nothing about it.” 

As an engine mechanic stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune from 1977 to 1982, Swartz worked at an engine shop on Marine Corps Air Station New River. The former sergeant cleaned helicopter engines with Trichloroethylene (TCE), a toxin that seeped into the base water supply and contributed to the contamination that spanned from 1953 to 1987. 


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For the entire article, see
https://www.jdnews.com/story/news/2021/06/03/marine-corps-veteran-drives-d-c-lejeune-water-awareness/7504713002/

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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
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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