Many U.S. service members say their time at Camp Lejeune and exposure to its toxic water for decades its led to severe illness, including cancer, leukemia and more.
"What went through my mind at the time was, ‘How did this happen?’ I was really healthy at the time. Where is this coming from? What didn't run in the family? Nobody ever did. I mean, not even cancer ran in the family. I just attributed it to God's will, to be honest with you."
"They knew about it in 1982. I didn't sign up for the Marine Corps until 1984. They could have solved the problem and saved a lot of people," Romano said,"but they chose not to say anything until 1987." In 2022, the Camp Lejeune Justice Act was added as a section to the SFC Heath Robinson Honoring our PACT Act, which was drafted to establish assistance to service members who were made sick from their exposure to burn pits while serving in the
"Pretty much any member of the Marine that lived east of the Mississippi [River] went through Camp Lejeune," Van Arsdale told Fox News."The water was toxic as early as 1953 and continued to be so up through 1987. And so, you literally have hundreds of thousands of Marines and their families going through that base during this time, all exposed to this toxic water."
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