Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune Caused Stillborn Baby Deaths And Other Child Deaths That Were Left Unrecorded

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The military may have covered up the Camp Lejeune childhood cancer cluster leading to an explosion in miscarriages, still borne baby deaths, and adolescent deaths

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - It is impossible to write about the Camp Lejeune North Carolina water contamination bill, the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, without thinking about the local innocent children who have died because of the military's negligence. So many Camp Lejeune marine children have died from leukemia and other forms of cancer that the local cemetery has been nicknamed to reflect the catastrophe. "Between 1953 and 1987, hundreds of infants died and were buried near the North Carolina base in a cemetery that has been named Baby Heaven," according to The US Sun. Marine veterans have told local news agencies in North Carolina about their experience with having a child die from leukemia. Some are accusing the military and local municipal officials of covering up the child cancer cluster and baby death explosion. CivilianExposure.com wrote about the Camp Lejeune baby death cover-up. "These children are just forgotten about. They are barely mentioned. Over the years several studies were completed, none were completed on stillbirth. One person has located over two-hundred death certificates that say the cause of death is unknown."

The actions of the military for decades border on committing an atrocity for failing to warn millions of Camp Lejeune military veterans, their families, and civilians that lived, worked, and played on or near the Marine installation, of the health dangers lurking in the local tap water. Passing the Honoring Our Pact Act and the Camp Lejeune Justice Act will open up the VA to veterans wishing to apply for additional health care benefits. The CLJA will also do away with the North Carolina statute of limitation that prevented them from filing PFAS cancer lawsuits against the military for the wrongful deaths of their children.

Childhood cancer is being blamed on the PFAS drinking water pregnant women drank while living on or near the Camp Lejeune Marine base. According to The Sun investigation tests of ordinary tap water showed concentrations of trichloroethylene, benzene, and perchloroethylene orders of magnitude greater than the permissible limits. Marines have told reporters that toxic water was never an issue and beyond the scope of their awareness. Marines and their families had more important things to worry about than testing their water like preparing to fight in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and numerous other military actions around the world. The source of Camp Lejeune water contamination has been traced to burn pits and the firefighting foam used to control the fires. Firefighting foam leaches toxic PFAS forever chemicals into the local drinking water reservoir, contaminating it. The Department of Defense has admitted they were aware of the problem for decades and failed to warn marines to keep their families away from drinking, cooking with, or bathing in the normal-looking and tasting water. On January 21, 2022, the Veteran's Administration (VA) confirmed their soldier's worst nightmare. "From the 1950s through the 1980s, people living or working at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, were potentially exposed to drinking water contaminated with industrial solvents, benzene, and other chemicals. research on past chemical contamination."

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