Falling Through The Cracks

I really get it reading your story. I am just starting this journey. I find it difficult that some towns outside of the toxic bases I lived at got settlements for contaminated underground well water and such. This goes back to settlements in 2002 and some earlier paid.From what I see our whole country is contaminated. Each base we lived at here and overseas, including the civilians in towns around them.I have 6 brothers and sisters and Five of us have had cancers, liver growths and huge growths on thyroids, to name just a few. Cancers as early as 17 years old.We need them to acknowledge all of us patriots that were there with our military fathers and mothers. Most areWar hero’s too. We trusted our government to protect us.We were told not to drink the water off base at CAFB PI. But on base was toxic there too I found out.We had families living off base coming on base for their water.This is a travesty.These forever chemicals can also affect our kids.We need to know that our parents and our service as dependents for our country is acknowledged and compensated in many ways.Healthcare would be one. Let’s get more info out to the public.I found out about this when Camp Legume started ads on tv.I thought maybe it was the same case as my family.So I started checking. MI found that Camp Legume wasn’t near as Toxic as GAFB and the bases I lived on. Docs have often said that our family had to of been exposed to something.We need to get the public more aware and they will have to listen.I believe that the toxic bases and towns near them are what has caused this huge amount of cancers we have in our country now.Kids, young, and old people When I got stage four melanoma at 26 years old in 1984 it was pretty rare to have cancer at my age and melanoma only affected 1% in the world it was that rare.Now it’s rampant.They have literally poisoned our whole nation and many parts of the world.Forget climate change and abortion people. Let’s save our Vets and their families. I think this will touch every American family to hear this. Everyone has someone in family or friends that have had cancer.it’s the water. The soil and much more.Ammo dumps. They should also start requiring or giving home water filters. Finding Ways to start mitigating it while trying to cure people already affected.Bottled water companies need to be regulated.They are not. A lot come from tap and some from underground water. The plastic bottles alone are dangerous.They say there’s minimal chemicals in the plastic bottles.Really? Who measures the little bit for toxic levels? This is a major crisis.They have known about this since the 60’s and testing in 70’s confirmed How many more have suffer or die before the government deems this important? Who wants to sign their life over to their country and be poisoned along with their families by the very people and country they are pledging allegiance to.
They need to make this right and be monitored while they are doing clean ups on these bases for future towns and people. I read that it would take 40,000 years to really clean up the toxins, radiation etc at GAFB. Yet they have businesses operating on it right now. We played in a dump behind our house a ways that had barrels leaking stuff into ground, old airplane parts and concrete we used as forts. We swam in the pool.We bathed in the water.We played sports in the dirt.We drank the water.We have a crippled nation right now and it’s only going to get worse as all of us are in our 60’s on up. Many have died agonizing deaths alone with no hope that didn’t deserve to die that way. None of us do.