People With Cancer Who Were Born At Camp Lejeune Can Sue The Federal Government

People that discover they have cancer later in life can attribute the disease to their mothers drinking toxic Camp Lejeune water while pregnant decades ago

Monday, August 29, 2022 - Mike Partain '21MA, whose father was a US Marine at Camp Lejeune, was interviewed by the University of Central Florida about his ordeal with the Marine Corps after being diagnosed with male breast cancer years ago and being denied benefits. Partain was born at Camp Lejeune decades ago and believes that his mother's Camp Lejeune water exposure on the base during her pregnancy led to his unlikely cancer as an adult. "I was conceived, carried, and delivered on the base," says Partain. "So, the most important time of my life -- from the moment I was conceived to the moment I was born -- my mother was drinking the water, bathing in the water; she was ingesting these chemicals and then passing them to the fetus. My exposure happened at probably the most vulnerable time in my life, and it's done damage that lasted my entire life," Partain told UFC. Partain had no history of cancer nor biomarkers for breast cancer and thinks the only place the disease could have been seeded is while he was in utero. Partain has located 125 other men who were conceived and born at Camp Lejeune and now have breast cancer, an extremely rare disease affecting only .005% of males. Partain alleged that the Marines failed to adhere to potable water standards. Partain told UFC, "there's pretty much been an acceptance in Congress and the media that the base was contaminated, the water was contaminated, and for seven years they knowingly poisoned their own people."

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act, the centerpiece of the Honoring Our Pact Act that the President of the United States signed into law earlier this month, gives US Marine veterans, civilian employees, and their families the right to file a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit against the Federal government for causing their cancer and also for contributing to the wrongful death of their loved ones. Many think that the Marine Corp has committed criminal negligence for failing to warn millions of people passing through Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 that the tap water was contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) Tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene from three separate water distributions systems on the base that delivered up to 300 times the level of carcinogens thought to be safe. Tens of thousands of US Marines with Camp Lejeune water cancer had been denied benefits by the US Navy when they applied on the basis that the Statute of Repose had expired. The Statute of Repose limited the time a person had to file a lawsuit to ten years after the first time water contamination occurred making almost everyone ineligible to seek justice in the court system. The CLJA overrides the Statute and thousands of Marines will now file lawsuits alleging not only that the water was polluted but also that the Marine Corp engaged in a criminal conspiracy to hide the truth.">

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