By Mark Douglas
The Veterans Administration has announced it is expanding a review of chemical exposure at the Camp LeJeune Marine Base—a problem that affects as many as 20,000 veterans now living in Florida and perhaps a million veterans and their families nationwide.
Cancer-causing chemicals poisoned the drinking water at the North Carolina base between 1953 and 1987, but the problem wasn’t discovered and widely publicized until years later. The Marine Corps and federal government has been slow to connect the pollution with health problems suffered by former Camp LeJeune residents.
Mike Partain was born at the base, briefly lived there as a dependent and eventually suffered breast cancer, a condition he attributes to the toxic chemicals his mother ingested during her
pregnancy. He’s become a leading advocate for victims of that water pollution and now lives in Polk County.
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