Burn pits: Behind the 'silent killer' ignored by the U.S. government for years

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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REBROADCAST: Burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq. Vast piles of U.S. military waste set alight, pouring smoke into the air that U.S. soldiers would breathe. Why were they ignored for so long? Megan Stack, Le Roy Torres and Dan Brewer join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:19.7	This is on point.
0:21.0	I'm Megna Chacrabardi.
0:23.1	Lieutenant Colonel Todd Thompson
0:25.1	served in the United States military for more than 20 years,
0:29.1	which means his wife Robin was married both to Todd,
0:33.0	the man she loved.
0:34.5	And as the saying goes, she was married to the military.
0:37.8	The organization Todd served.
0:40.6	Todd was just 22 when he enlisted in 1995.
0:44.3	He met Robin two weeks later.
0:46.4	And his duties took him and sometimes Robin everywhere
0:50.5	from Pennsylvania and New Mexico to South Korea.
0:54.4	And then in 2007, Todd was stationed
0:58.5	at Camp Victory in Baghdad.
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