Fighting For Justice
By Sara Papantonio
Introduction
United States military bases around the world are designed to be impenetrable zones , with foundations equipped to withstand the force of any foreign enemy attack . Camp Lejeune , a US Marine Corp base in North Carolina was built to be no different . However , from the 1950s to the late 1980s , this Marine base was breached by a foreign invader arguably worse than the Vietcong or North Koreans . For 30 years , men , women , and children who were stationed at Camp Lejeune were poisoned with deadly volatile organic chemicals found in the base ’ s drinking water .
Because of this , the Camp Lejeune water contamination has been distinguished as the worst public drinking-water contamination in American history . It is , perhaps , one of the most significant betrayals of service men and women by US government . For the past several decades , veterans and families that resided or worked at Camp Lejeune , North Carolina have been denied justice . Hundreds of thousands of men , women , and children have suffered from the cancers and life-threatening illnesses — health problems that the government created for them . For years , these victims have had no means to recover for their suffering . Now , because of one lawyer ’ s unwillingness to accept defeat , we have the opportunity to fight for the victims of the Camp Lejeune water contamination .
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