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Mobile woman believes Camp Lejeune water contamination caused her cancer
WPMI TV ^ | 08/02/22 | Andrea Ramey

Posted on 08/04/2022 9:49:12 PM PDT by L.A.Justice

MOBILE, Ala (WPMI) — By now you've likely seen the flurry of ads targeting veterans and their families who served at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Thousands of lawsuits are expected to be filed, decades after toxic water poisoned families there. One Mobile woman NBC 15 News spoke with believes that exposure caused her cancer.

In 2015, Sherry Weatherford received a surprising and unsettling diagnosis: stage 2 lung cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at mynbc15.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: northcarolina
"From 1953 to 1987 there were contaminants dumped into the water supply and into groundwater supply at Camp Lejeune, and these were things that cause cancer, causes birth defects, miscarriages, stillborn babies, Parkinson's disease, some very, very nasty chemicals," said attorney Ed Rowan.

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act passed the Senate Tuesday and is headed to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.

Do you know anybody who spent time at Camp Lejeune?

People could file a claim under this Act...

1 posted on 08/04/2022 9:49:12 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

I was at Lejeune for three years. No adverse effects or anything. I’ve filled out the questionnaire and now just wish I could stop the ads for this lawsuit. Hopefully those affected will get a big settlement.

Sadly the lawyers will get the biggest chuck of money.


2 posted on 08/04/2022 9:54:45 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: L.A.Justice

I was at Montford Point before shipping out to RVN. I’ve had cancer twice in the last ten years and have been treated successfully at UNC. I am avoiding the VA. I prefer to live. They talk a good game, but...


3 posted on 08/04/2022 10:08:26 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (H zeavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: L.A.Justice
🎶I have a structured settlement and I need cash now …
4 posted on 08/04/2022 10:14:46 PM PDT by 11th_VA (I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
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To: rfreedom4u
my oldest brother was at Camp Lejeune....he went to Nam and now has Parkinsons pretty bad....I think the VA is already treating him claiming it was agent orange...

if this Camp Lejeune thing is real, my brother has two shyster lawyer sons....

5 posted on 08/04/2022 10:18:27 PM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: rfreedom4u
Sadly the lawyers will get the biggest chuck of money.

I think that will happen in this case...

I am not a big fan of trial lawyers...But, sometimes, trial lawyers have to threaten to file lawsuits to get things done...

6 posted on 08/04/2022 10:27:55 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: rfreedom4u

I’m getting non stop email add everyday from the attorneys.


7 posted on 08/04/2022 10:36:46 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (No!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Meant solicitation ads.


8 posted on 08/04/2022 10:37:17 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (No!)
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To: L.A.Justice

There have been so many class-action adverts about this suddenly running on TV this summer that you’d think half the US is eligible for a settlement.


9 posted on 08/05/2022 12:06:34 AM PDT by 4Liberty (On Jan 6th: Trump’s OWN F.B.I. plotted against him.)
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To: rfreedom4u

Exactly. Lawyers get their “substantial” cut first. I had to interview a woman in Arizona who used to watch a lot of late night TV. She saw an ad about some machine the hospitals were using to treat their patients. She called the number. Then in her words, she won a settlement for 2.6 million bucks in a California court without ever having to leave home. I asked her how much she got. She got just over 900 grand. The lawyers got the rest. She showed me the paperwork. Freaked me out.


10 posted on 08/05/2022 12:42:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: 4Liberty
There have been so many class-action adverts about this suddenly running on TV this summer that you’d think half the US is eligible for a settlement.

I think those TV ads are necessary...I think a lot of people were trained in Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987...

11 posted on 08/05/2022 12:46:09 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: 4Liberty

I need that big $0.27 class action check!


12 posted on 08/05/2022 12:46:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Because law firms are recruiting clients


13 posted on 08/05/2022 1:27:16 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: L.A.Justice

BTTT


14 posted on 08/05/2022 1:37:20 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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my emails are being blown up about this lawsuit.
we never lived there .


15 posted on 08/05/2022 3:48:47 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: L.A.Justice

My brother in law, a career marine, was stationed there beginning in 1953. My sister and her two daughters who were two and four years old lived on base at the time with him. In 1997, my niece was diagnosed with breast cancer at 46 years old, six months later her sister was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old, who died a year later. It has always been a mystery that two sisters both developed cancer at the same time. After seeing these commercials, it may be the answer.


16 posted on 08/05/2022 4:34:46 AM PDT by Toespi
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