Baby Heaven: The Buried Stories of Camp Lejeune, for the first time five mothers detail their heart-break: veteran marines, wives and daughters most of whom are sick themselves, all of whom lost babies after being exposed to the toxic water at Camp Lejeune.
Army Staff Sgt. Mark Jackson kept a daily journal, documenting how he became permanently sickened while stationed at the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan in 2003. Yellow tabs protrude from his blue spiraled notebook, marking dozens of pages in which he logged his growing list of health issues. “The air here is poison,” he wrote on July 28, 2003, shortly after arriving at the Soviet-era air base, according to journal entries he shared with NBC News.
history, up to 1 million people who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 may have been exposed to a drinking water supply contaminated with chemicals that have been linked to severe health problems, including cancers and birth defects, federal health officials said. In 2012, Congress passed a law that provided health care and other benefits to qualifying veterans who served at the U.S. Marine Corps training facility in North Carolina, as well as their families.
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