[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) legacy

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

N.C. base left deadly legacy

By JO-ANN MORIARTY
Springfield Republican (MA)
July 22, 2007

When Hampden resident Sally J. McLaughlin recently learned of a new 
government study revealing that water at Camp Lejeune was toxic as far 
back as the 1950s, the heartache returned instantly.

She was reliving the haunting birth and tragic death of her daughter, 
Michelle, in Hawaii in 1966 - about two years after she and her husband, 
Thomas, a Marine sergeant, had left the North Carolina military base 
where they had lived together for more than a year.

Sally McLaughlin, who had a daughter, Carrie, without complications 
during the year she was stationed at Camp Lejeune, anticipated greeting 
her second born despite a difficult pregnancy during which her abdomen 
was unusually swollen, causing her great discomfort.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.masslive.com/springfield/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-2/118509366026210.xml&coll=1

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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