[CPEO-MEF] PFCs, VOCs: Wurtsmith Air Force (MI) veterans "blame Air Force ..."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'We've been betrayed:' Veterans blame Air Force base water for chronic diseases

By Garret Ellison 

MLive (MI)

June 29, 2016


OSCODA, MI - Traci Kroushour is 39 and will never have children.

That's not by choice. All she ever wanted was to become a mother. But Kroushour's uterus was removed at age 28 after two miscarriages and a lifetime of chronic ailments like bone death, fibromyalgia, irregular heartbeat, gastrointestinal problems and underdeveloped reproductive organs.

Kroushour lived on Montana Street in Oscoda until she was 12, in a neighborhood with other military kids whose parents were stationed at Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Her brother died of a heart attack at age 28. Two other men who lived on her street also died of unexplained heart failure at a relatively young age.

Other women she knew from the neighborhood have struggled with strange reproductive health problems. Causes for all of them have been elusive.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/06/wurtsmith_veterans_health.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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