A 20-year-old soldier died from acute leukemia in Iraq [View All]

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I would assume that anyone can have leukemia. But this is a 20 year old man who was healthy enough to be in the Army. Does anyone know if DU munitions have been known to cause leukemia? Thanks in advance if anyone knows.

Don

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-2152000.php

Families seek answers about soldiers’ deaths

At least one family, and possibly two, want independent opinions on what caused the deaths of their loved ones after they became ill in Iraq.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Bellville, Texas, family of Army Spc. Zeferino Colunga requested medical records, personal effects and blood and tissue samples of the 20-year-old soldier.

Colunga, of the 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Calvary Regiment, died Aug. 6 at Homburg Hospital in Germany, after he fell ill in Iraq. The family was told he had pneumonia and acute leukemia, his 19-year-old sister, Teresa Colunga, said.

“We gave the military my brother alive,” she said. “They gave him back to us dead. I want to find out what happened.”

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