Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - Here is water contamination information from the Veteran's Administration (VA) that every US Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune should know about. For more than fifty years, Marines, their spouses, children, and also civil employees working on or near the military installation have drank, cooked with, or played in water that was contaminated with carcinogenic PFAS forever chemicals. Medical experts fear that millions of people from this one North Carolina area alone on or near Camp Lejeune may have cancer or another deadly disease and the majority may not know it yet. If you as a veteran or anyone in your family lived in or near the Camp Lejeune Marine Base and has been diagnosed with cancer, you should contact a PFAS water attorney to register to file a claim for lump-sum monetary compensation. You also may qualify for enhanced benefits from the VA in addition to your lawsuit against the Federal government. The conditions that you must meet to be eligible for enhanced VA benefits are similar to what you will need for your lawsuit and come directly from the VA website as follows.
The first condition that must be met is easy. You must have served at Camp Lejeune or MCAS New River for at least 30 days in total from 1953 to 1988, and have not been dishonorably discharged. It is presumed that the following types of disease may have been developed from drinking the tap water at Camp Lejeune and qualify you for benefits. "Adult leukemia, Aplastic anemia, and other myelodysplastic syndromes, Bladder cancer, Kidney cancer, Liver cancer, Multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Parkinson's disease." If you have retired and seemed healthy at the time it does not mean that you do not have a claim. Cancer and Parkinson's disease have a latency period of up to 20 years before the symptoms become readily apparent. All marines should go to an independent physician other than one associated with the military and get an independent health check-up regularly from here on in.
Military veterans are also highly concerned about the health of their spouses and children. Thousands of children may have become stricken with leukemia or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Both are deadly forms of cancer of the blood and lymph nodes respectively. Children may have become stricken while in their mother's womb because mothers inadvertently consumed contaminated Camp Lejeune tap water. No one should have to deal with the death of a child for any reason, especially not because the US government hid the truth about local drinking water contamination. Federal legislation is pending that will allow Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune the ability to file powerful wrongful death lawsuits for noseven-figure lump sum amounts because their sons and daughters were born with cancer. The Hill.com sums up the entire PFAS cancer situation at Camp Lejeune thoroughly. "From 1953 to 1987, more than a million men, women, and children bathed in and ingested Camp Lejeune's toxic water. Hundreds of babies died, so many filling a stretch of a nearby cemetery that it received the grim title "Baby Heaven." And children were not the only victims of the poisoning. Tens of thousands of Marines, military family members, and civilian staff have since developed severe illnesses, from cancer to Parkinson's, linked to the contamination. "
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