Vets denied treatment

[unhappycamper]

Nomad559 posted this in Editorials and other Articles this morning. The truth is leaking out about depleted uranium. One tiny drop at a time.

Soldier exposed to depleted uranium in training dies of leukemia caused by toxic weapon residue


Vets denied treatment
By Mark Anderson
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:02:00



Several young U.S. Marines in the same California hospital ward are suffering from the same aggressive form of leukemia, and the cancer may be linked to exposure to depleted uranium (DU). DU is a super-dense radioactive material that’s mainly used as plating on U.S. munitions, functioning as an extremely effective kinetic-energy penetrator to pierce armor.

At least one Marine, Eric Renner of Oregon City, has died from this form of leukemia. However, Renner reportedly never even went to Iraq. It’s believed DU exposure during live-fire training brought on his illness.

Renner’s father, Steve, went public with his concerns about DU after hearing that another Marine, 22-year-old Andy Rounds, may have been exposed to DU when a munitions dump exploded at his base in Iraq—an event that resembles the incident at Camp Doha in the first Gulf War that spread enough DU particles and shrapnel around to qualify it for current-day research on DU’s role in Gulf War Illness (GWI), otherwise known as Gulf War syndrome.

“Rounds’s treatment is not being covered by the military because he was not diagnosed until after he was out of the Army,” reported KPTV Channel 12, a Fox News affiliate in Portland, Ore. that ran this story regionally. Matters concerning DU rarely make the national news. The state of Oregon is covering Rounds’s expenses.

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Meanwhile, as KPTV noted, the U.S. military denies a link: “The military says it has done extensive research and found no connection between depleted uranium and leukemia.” Military spokesmen routinely refer to DU as having “low level” radiation that is “harmless.”

Back when Renner visited his dying son at a California military hospital, “four other Marines in the same ward were said to be fighting the same cancer,” KPTV reported. “I thought it was kind of strange,” Renner was quoted as saying by KPTV, which on Aug. 2 posted its report on this matter on its web site, complete with a video link. “This is a bigger problem than anybody really knows.”


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uhc note:

The Gulf War vets are familiar with depleted uranium: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/du.htm

The Iraq and Afghanistan vets are also familiar with depleted uranium. http://www.ivaw.org/dufactsheet

Much of the world is aware of this hazard. http://news.google.co.uk/news?as_q=DEPLETED+URANIUM&svnum=10&as_scoring=d&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&edition=uk&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_occt=any&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=28&as_minm=8&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=9

Too bad we don't hear about it.

[screembloodymurder]

1. Our troops become tr-Oops

when they can no longer fight. It's a disgrace.

[fed-up]

2. DU has been in the news since Gulf War I-I like the billboard

Pentagon denied DU was being used up until some FOIA savvy vet found the documents,

yet, it still needs more exposure...