• prsauer
  

  • Registered: Jan 18, 2005
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  Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 07:10 PM

  http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7308903
  
  

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  RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (WABC) -- They sacrificed for their country doing research in the Cold War for national security. Now, some have cancer and the government trying to compensate them.
  
  Officials are calling for people who may have been exposed and ended up with cancer to come forward and be compensated. The issue centers around the Brookhaven National Labratory.
  
  "I'm a single mother," Tina Graham said. "I had three kids. I was told that I had a year to live."
  
  Graham is one of more than 15,000 people who worked in buildings on the Brookhaven property that the federal government now admits may have made them sick.
  
  "They told us it was safe," Graham said. "They said here, wear this, it's all safe. But over the years, I've seen a lot of young people die of cancer."
  
  A hulking nuclear reactor now sits dormant, with its cleanup under way. But during the Cold War, engineers did research to support the American atomic weapons program.
  
  "Everybody was drinking well water," Brookhaven worker Jerry Henry said. "People getting sick every day, and they're never going to know what they're dying from."
  
  So many have gotten sick that the Obama administration has decreed that the victims deserve to be compensated. But because of spotty record keeping before 1980, authorities have no way to know for sure who was exposed.
  
  So the new order will compensate anyone who worked at Brookhaven from 1947 to 1979 for at least 250 days and was diagnosed with one of 22 specific types of cancer.
  
  So the new order will compensate anyone who worked at Brookhaven from 1947 to 1979 for at least 250 days and was diagnosed with one of 22 specific types of cancer.
  
  The Department of Labor held a meeting Wednesday to explain the rule and how to apply for a check totaling $150,000, plus medical bills.
  
  But Tina Graham, who has lived four more years than her doctor predicted, says she isn't sure anything would suffice after what she's endured.
  
  "It's better than nothing, but you can't replace my breast," she said. "You can't replace having cancer. You can't replace the fear in my children's eyes when I told them I had a year to live."
  

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• wanted
  

  • Registered: May 14, 2003
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  Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 08:15 PM

  so what is our government doing about this besides talking lets hold hands and work together under UDP policies.
  
  "Sometimes you just can't argue with stupid!!!"
  
  

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• jitdam
  

  • Registered: Apr 15, 2008
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  Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 08:36 PM

  kwoj mool wanted. juon wot boro enaj kajur im laaj ainikien.. emman uaak eo jen senator Riklon jen aelon in Kwajalien, bwe ren bar kanektok CCP eo im bar jerbale im bar lemeenlok ilo ar jerbal ibben biil in jen congress.. ne obama ej kile ke ej aikuj bok leen ko jen jorren in komelmel ijoko jikier, eokwe kej jej aikuj bar, im kej make jen bukot juon plan in jertbal eo enaj kitibuuj aolep rimajol, ilo majol kab ilo amerika...

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• barefoot
  

  • Registered: Jan 23, 2008
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  Posted: Mar 08, 2010 - 05:10 AM

  Well imagine dirct exposeure without no protective outfit on? The people of Rongelap for example. Is Obama willing to compensate them for what his government did to them in search of scientific knowledge? I do agree, its about time the Nitijela do something, now that we have a "brother" in Washington who is seeking for those of his own citizens to be compensated as a result of being exposed to radiation while working at the Brookhaven site. Who in the Nitijela or the Cabinet will disagree with any ideas or suggestion in pushing for the CCCP? Be a man and rise up as a fellow Marshallese. Don't be coward again. Those "yes sir" days are long gone.

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• flagcollector
  

  • Registered: Oct 22, 2008
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  Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 05:33 PM

  i agree, when will you compensate & clean the trash in RMI?????
  
  

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