[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: "Military families wrestle with [Camp Lejeune, NC] water contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military families wrestle with Marine camp water contamination

by PAT KINNEY
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (IA)
February 19, 2017

WATERLOO - When she was a little girl, Antonett Cox ran to hug her daddy when he headed off to war.

It was the late 1960s and they lived at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Antonett’s dad was a U.S. Navy medical corpsman assigned to a Marine reconnaissance unit. He served 13 months in Vietnam and was awarded a Purple Heart.

What her father didn’t know as he headed off to the dangers of combat was there was danger at Camp Lejeune, lurking in its contaminated water. Today, Antonett, now a wife and mother, has cancer - breast cancer, lymph cancer, brain cancer.

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Her cancer is linked to water she consumed and bathed in as a child at Camp Lejeune. It contained benzene, a carcinogen, and other contaminants. Her father, Thomas R. Jones Sr., who now lives in Springfield, Ill., also has cancer; his was detected at an earlier, more treatable stage. Both were diagnosed within a few months of each other about a year and a half ago.

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For the entire article, see
http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/military-families-wrestle-with-marine-camp-water-contamination/article_01c627dd-cd64-5d39-9e45-eedd38f09d21.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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