Across the nation, hundreds of military sites have contaminated waterways with toxic forever chemicals.

Last night, we brought you the story of one Michigan community pressuring the Air Force to clean up the decades-old contamination.

Tonight, special correspondent Megan Thompson reports on the potential health impacts of that toxic water,

and the veterans who fear it has made them sick.

Four, five, six, seven, eight, almost all the grandchildren.

There's Mitchell in the center.

Craig and Kerry Miner's home in Cedarville, Ohio, is filled with family photos.

This is my favorite picture. Taylor's holding Mitchell's head up,

and I just love that picture of all four of the kids.

Mitchell is the minor's third child, born in 1989 with severe disabilities.

Mitchell had cerebral palsy and he had microcephaly, major seizure disorders. He was completely a quadriplegic.

Carrie provided around the clock care for him

until he died in 2020 at the age of 30.

He was a daddy's boy.

We loved him dearly.

Doctors suggested a virus could have caused Mitchell's disabilities.

But a year before he died,

Craig saw something on TV that made him think otherwise.

They were talking about contamination that all these bases through firefighter foam,

and Wirtsmith's name came up.

Wart Smith, as in the former Air Force Base in Oscota, Michigan, where Craig was stationed

for four years as a B-52 bomber pilot.

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