This is your Military, and many of you that haven't served, who visit these blogs or follow the reports, have found out how your DoD and Government treat those that have because us veterans, especially those who have been affected by a wide veriaty of health issues and suspected or known causes, have let you in on the suffering, stonewalling and coverups that have been around since the beginning.
Well here's one more for you all to chomp on that I'm sure many hadn't heard about, or if did didn't want find out more about. Just one more of an extremely long list, far too long and going way back, for those who have suffered with or died, as the stonewalling succeeded, as to their health and their families health
The gruff ex-drill instructor is angry leukemia claimed his daughter, Janey. Parents were guilt-ridden that perhaps their own actions had ruined their daughters' health. An aging major still mourns the wife who shared his torment over their baby's fatal birth defects. A former Navy doctor's career was demolished by his rare cancer.
No one ever seems to question the ever grossly growing Defense Budgets, especially where Exactly your money is going. Rage comes with $400 hammers, than subsides, as life goes on till the next similar report or some Congressperson gets nailed in a defense corruption scandle, than that rage subsides, till the next time, or weapons systems like this that don't work or aren't wanted, till the next time, and the next, and the next.............. We seem to not mind getting screwed!
Yet when it comes to Veterans who've been grossly mistreated by the system they served and ignored by the country they served, only a few will join them in their battles for what is justly theirs, Answers and Compensation!
Past contaminated water at Lejeune suspected in death and illness
An environmental tragedy realized a generation ago that is drawing new scrutiny from members of Congress outraged over the government's treatment of sick veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and elsewhere.
How long before the Reed and VA incidents are old news, just like the one in this report that surprisingly resurfaced, or Defoliants, or Gulf War Syndrom, or the hundreds and thousands of others.
I would suggest a read of this, and especially anyone, Marine, family member living with a Marine, or civilian that were in or around Lejeune from 1957 till 1987.
There are now 850 pending legal claims seeking nearly $4 billion.
At least 120,000 people lived in family housing that may have been affected over three decades, plus uncounted civilian workers and Marines in barracks, Marine Corps figures indicate. Defense officials recently told U.S. health investigators that between 1975 and 1985 alone, nearly 200,000 Marines were stationed at Camp Lejeune.
Health officials and lawmakers complain that the Defense Department has delayed disclosure of important documents during investigations into the health impact of water contaminated by a dry cleaner adjacent to Camp Lejeune and by the base's past industrial activities.
"We wouldn't be investigating this disgraceful situation if {the Department of Defense} had put half as much effort into cleaning up the water as it has into stonewalling those who drank it," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
There's an oversight hearing Tuesday investigating the Pentagon's environmental record.
Defense Department considers environmental cleanups to be a low priority.
At Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps said in a written statement it gave U.S. health investigators "full access" to its records, including "vast and varied" documents, e-mails, maps, contracts and technical information. However, military lawyers acknowledged they are blocking plans for health officials to disclose some records publicly, citing privacy, legal and security concerns.
On four occasions to ease a temporary water shortage in 1985 the Marines quietly reopened one well at night even after they had shut it down because of contamination.
Two former Marines, retired Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger and retired Maj. Tom Townsend, have directed their grief into an encyclopedic collection of historical documents, hydrology data, e-mails and other military files they obtained mostly under the Freedom of Information Act. Townsend's stack of papers reaches 20 feet.
Townsend's infant son, Christopher, suffered a fatal heart malformation and other birth defects. By the time his wife of 52 years died of liver cirrhosis last year,
Ensminger's wife was pregnant at Camp Lejeune in the 1970s. Their daughter, Janey, died in 1985 at age 9. He described taking dark-haired Janey to the hospital instead of her third-grade classroom, weeping as he watched her slip away. She told him to stop, that she loved him. She lapsed into a coma. She died that day.
"They drag it out and by the time you get them all done, everybody would be dead anyway," he said. "That's the whole purpose of their delaying tactics and it's succeeding."
The Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing cleanups at more than 150 military installations polluted by the same chemicals.
There is another report, in the same paper, filling in, as title states, the events of the contamination.
Key events in Camp Lejeune's water contamination
With current events in the DOJ read what you might in the last item of these Key Events!
April 2005: Criminal investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency find no illegal actions or cover up in Camp Lejeune's handling of its water contamination. The Justice Department declines to prosecute.
The words "Supporting The Troops" mean just what is said "Support The Troops", three words this country fails to follow, over and over and over, and in this day and age of the Patriotic Propaganda we all know who really "Support The Troops"!!
Now how much, of what is happening to todays Military Personal, all of them, but especially those who are serving in our Two Theaters of War Operations, some over and over and over and over.............., are we going to help them fight for, or are we going to let it become Old News till the Next Time!!
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