Camp Lejeune's ex-residents, many ill, only now learning of toxic water

Camp Lejeune's ex-residents, many ill, only now learning of toxic water
By Barbara Barrett, McClatchy Newspapers
Stars and Stripes online edition, Sunday, February 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — Paul Akers was in his oncologist's office last summer when his adult daughter handed him a magazine.

He saw a half-page ad from the Marine Corps, alerting former residents of Camp Lejeune, N.C., that if they lived on the base between 1957 and 1987, they might have been exposed to contaminated water.

Akers thought about his mother, the wife of a Marine, who died in 1960.
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Camp Lejeune's ex-residents, many ill, only now learning of toxic water