VFW Town Hall Meetings Help Camp Lejeune Water Survivors Gain Insight Into The Cause Of Cancer
US Marine veterans and their family members have developed cancer from drinking Camp Lejeune water and their survivors want answers
Thursday, September 8, 2022 - Marine veterans and their surviving family members live in every city and rural community in America. Getting the word to them that the time they spent at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 may have resulted in cancer or other diseases, pregnancy and birth defects, etc., is up to local organizations and the local media. The USMC and Navy failed to inform those living or working at the base for more than three decades that the water they were drinking would give them cancer. As a result of the military's negligence, carelessness, and recklessness, millions of Americans that passed through Camp Lejeune drank water that can give them cancer. Cancer has a latency of around 10-years so many marine veterans are unaware of the connection between their service at Camp Lejeune and the disease that will eventually or has already cost them their lives.
According to the CDC, "Tests from routine water treatment plant sampling and samples of water supply wells identified that trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), vinyl chloride (VC) and benzene contaminated some drinking water sources at Camp Lejeune." Camp Lejeune water attorneys may be asked to speak in front of local town hall meetings and meetings of other Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and other military veteran organizations and provide personal no-cost, no-obligation legal advice to those who have lost a loved one. One can find any VFW in their hometown by visiting VFW.org online and completing the search at the bottom of the home page. The VFW offers free town hall format seminars as a way to get information to survivors about the facts surrounding the water contamination tragedy that plagued Camp Lejeune Marines, civilian workers, and independent contractors working at the base. Camp Lejeune survivors can now file a lawsuit for lump-sum compensation against the federal government for the wrongful cancer death they caused.
Not only were US Marines stricken in large numbers with cancer, but their spouses and children were also. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act was recently enacted into law early in August 2022 and survivors can now hire a Camp Lejeune cancer attorney and initiate their lawsuit. If you have a spouse, sibling, or parent who served or worked at Camp Lejeune for at least 30-days between 1953 and 1987 and has died from one of a long list of diseases, you probably have a good case. The list of illnesses that may qualify one to pursue legal action includes but is not limited to: Adult leukemia, Aplastic anemia, and other myelodysplastic syndromes, Bladder cancer, Kidney cancer, Liver cancer, Multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Parkinson's disease, according to the VA. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act is at the core of the Honoring Our Pact Act which addresses exposure to battlefield toxins such as Agent Orange, burn pit emissions and water contamination, and atomic energy.
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