Toxic Military Dump May Have Given Cancer To Over 1 Million People.

If this article doesn’t anger the shit out of you, you need to get your soul examined.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Ron Poirier couldn’t escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.

As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he’d dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in the country’s history — and, perhaps, to his own premature death.

“It’s just a terrible thing,” the 58-year-old veteran told The Associated Press shortly before succumbing to esophageal cancer at a Cape Cod nursing facility on May 3.

“Once I found out, it’s like, ‘God! I added to the contamination.’”

The cancer that killed Poirier is one of more than a dozen diseases and conditions with recognized links to a toxic soup brewing beneath the sprawling coastal base between the 1950s and mid-1980s, when officials finally ordered tainted drinking-water wells closed. As many as a million Marines, family members and civilian employees are believed to have been exposed to several cancer-causing chemicals

http://www.ksro.com/news/article.aspx?id=4940313

Semper Fi, pfft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Lejeune_water_contamination

The American Cancer Society started keeping records in 1952. The contamination occured between

1953-1985. Was this some kind of sick military experiment?

In 1960 around 35,000 people in the US lost their lives to cancer. Population 180,000,000. 1 in 5142 chance of dying from cancer.

In 2012, around 570,000 people died in the US from cancer,Population 308,800,00. 1 in 540 chance of dying from cancer.

Is the billions upon billions of dollars spent in cancer research doing ANYTHING?? One is nearly 10 times more likely to die from cancer today, than in 1960!!

There is no questioin that the US govt/military has greatly contributed to cancer death in the US.  I lost my father when I was 13 yrs old to cancer, yet still to this day, we are no closer to a cure, infact, we are further away…

And with people like Angelina Jolie cutting off her breasts, BEFORE getting cancer, it’s obvious to me the multi billion dollar cancer industry has no interest in curing cancer, but they have plenty of extremely expensive treatments, that are often fatal.