| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/05/19, 12:33 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply "Baby Boy" or
"Baby Girl," followed by a surname and a burial date.
Like Blakely, many of those buried in this lonely section of Onslow
Memorial Park known as "Babyland" were the children of Marines stationed
down the road at Camp Lejeune. How many of these fellow "Devil Dog
pups," she wondered, died because they or their pregnant mothers had
swallowed or bathed in the base's toxic water?
"These are my peers," she cried as cars and trucks rushed by on busy
U.S. 258 one recent blustery day. "I'm a Marine Corps brat. And this
could be me."
The 49-year-old homemaker lived on the southeast North Carolina base
during the 1960s and '70s — at a time when levels of certain
cancer-causing chemicals were among the highest ever recorded in a
public drinking water supply.
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