Marine base cancer concerns bring hundreds to Tampa

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Mike Partain says he got a form of male breast cancer from contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.


Marine base cancer concerns bring hundreds to Tampa
By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune
Published: January 15, 2011
Updated: 01/15/2011 09:53 pm


TAMPA - Jerry Ensminger stood in front of the standing-room-only crowd in Salon B at the Marriott Westshore and talked about his nearly 15-year fight to get answers from the U.S. Marine Corps about why his daughter died.

It's a battle that most of the 200 people in the room, many wearing USMC baseball caps, know firsthand.

In 1985, Ensminger's 9-year-old daughter Janey died of leukemia. "Like any parent," he told the audience, "I wanted to know why."

Then, one night in 1997, he tuned into CNN. It changed his life.

The network was reporting that contamination at Camp Lejeune, the sprawling Marine Corps base in North Carolina, was being linked to childhood cancer, primarily leukemia.

[lonestarnot]

1. K & R!

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[hootinholler]

3. A friend's husband is battling throat cancer

He is part of the Lejune cluster.

-Hoot

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4. K&R #18 "still love the Marines, not the ones who lead" (substitute Branch) n/t