FALLOUT OF CAMP LEJEUNE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The highly publicized groundwater contamination at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, has brought broad awareness about contamination of this and hundreds of other American military bases with forever chemicals.

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0:00.0	If you're sitting there watching TV or listening to radio ads, you may hear an ad recently
0:06.4	that's been running and wonder what the heck's going on.
0:08.8	It sounds a little bit like this.
0:10.0	Take a listen.
0:11.0	Attention.
0:12.0	Did you serve live or work at Marine Corps Base Camp Le Jun North Carolina between 1953
0:17.4	and 1987?
0:18.8	Congress just passed the Camp Le Jun justice act to help compensate veterans exposed to polluted
0:23.9	water at Marine Corps Base Camp Le Jun.
0:26.8	The closure to the chemicals in the Camp Le Jun water led to an increased risk of birth
0:31.2	defects.
0:33.0	Camp Le Jun babies in the study were four times more likely to have neural tube birth defects
0:38.5	such as spinal bifida and oral cleft defects.
0:41.4	Parkinson's disease, leukemia, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, multiple aroma, a plastic
0:48.6	anemia, and non-hot fiends lymphoma.
0:51.6	You may be entitled to financial compensation.
0:54.3	Your financial compensation?
0:56.2	Be substantial.
0:57.2	You've served our country well.
0:59.5	Get the justice you deserve.
1:01.0	I'm glad you're going to finally bring some, you know, understand to this because my radio
1:06.6	I hear it all the time.
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