Baby Heaven: The Buried Stories of Camp Lejeune

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  • Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
  • Baby Heaven: The Buried Stories of Camp Lejeune, for the first time five mothers detail their heart-break: veteran marines, wives and daughters most of whom are sick themselves, all of whom lost babies after being exposed to the toxic water at Camp Lejeune. Their journeys are filled with pain and fury as they confront the ways they say they’ve been lied to and deceived for decades. We hear from scientists, whistle-blowers and insiders including the General called by Congress to testify about one of the biggest contaminations and cover-ups in U.S. history. A chemist who told the brass at Camp Lejeune in 1982 the water was contaminated with cancer-causing dry cleaning fluid but said they seemed “indifferent” ; a civilian water system operator who says he was told to send toxic water to people’s homes after senior staff insisted on watering the base golf course; the General who says he and the Commandant were lied to by the command at Camp Lejeune, while acknowledging no one was ever punished. And finally, we visit a section of a Jacksonville, North Carolina cemetery called “Baby Heaven” as these mothers search for their children and the truth.
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Комментарии • 200

  • @suzilindsay5931
    @suzilindsay5931 Месяц назад +98

    It is criminal the way our veterans are treated.

    • @user-qc8do8rl6f
      @user-qc8do8rl6f Месяц назад +10

      Why didn't USMC correct the problems as soon as they knew about it???

    • @Lily-cm3nj
      @Lily-cm3nj Месяц назад

      Absolutely!!!! And why no one should sign up for the military, heck send all these illegals aliens that are storming in and being treated better than the veterans will ever be treated!.

    • @rosearning9974
      @rosearning9974 Месяц назад

      It's criminal how the American citizens are treated. Remember the covid must have prevention.

    • @rosearning9974
      @rosearning9974 Месяц назад +3

      It's criminal how the citizens are treated. Remember the must have covid prevention and denial of effects.

    • @williamelliott
      @williamelliott Месяц назад +2

      When in the military you are just a number.

  • @kathyhardee2398
    @kathyhardee2398 Месяц назад +83

    This is the very reason I encouraged my children not to serve in the military. I have no trust in our government. God bless all that serve.

    • @Lily-cm3nj
      @Lily-cm3nj Месяц назад +9

      And I totally agree with you and if I had kids I'd forbid them to serve this wicked country!

    • @cherisehughey1122
      @cherisehughey1122 Месяц назад +4

      Unfortunately my neighbor son's went to the military right after they graduated. Although their parents didn't want them to go 😳.So, far I haven't heard anything bad about the service. I guess it just depends on the location of the stationary where they are at 🤷. My 💔 goes out to the families that had to endure all of this tragedy 😥.

    • @tarabauerle1239
      @tarabauerle1239 Месяц назад +2

      Same. I told my son that I would break his dang leg myself if he even thought about joining any branch of the service. My sister was a Marine during Dessert Storm. She came home with a skin condition that never went away. Who knows what they all have been injected with or exposed to.

    • @da1stamericus
      @da1stamericus Месяц назад +2

      ​@@cherisehughey1122 it really depends on the locations. My sister is married to a Marine. They have been together for roughly 22 years. They have two kids, one born on a base in Spain. Thankfully they are well. He retired three years ago. He served for about 23 years.

    • @LifeisEnergy2
      @LifeisEnergy2 Месяц назад +1

      @@tarabauerle1239
      Desert storm they all became lab rats 😢

  • @luana1600
    @luana1600 Месяц назад +34

    I live near a Navy base in California. My dad worked as a civilian there in the 60s and found that they were dumping oil, chemicals, basically anything and everything into the ground. They were also transferring that stuff to sand dunes about a mile from the base. There were homes that were later built there that eventually had to be evacuated and torn down. It makes you wonder how many lives have been destroyed by our military. Not just in war but at home too. These women and so many more like them need to be acknowledged and compensated for lives lost and ruined. I send Peace and Love to all of Camp Lejeune victims. 💚

    • @mcelwain32
      @mcelwain32 Месяц назад

      Biggest polluter in the world is the US DoD. They do it all over the world.

  • @carolinecantelmo3790
    @carolinecantelmo3790 Месяц назад +49

    I was a 25 year old women married to a marine in 1983 . I spent time with my husband there and became pregnant . After 7 weeks of feeling Terrible weakness and fatigue I returned home to Brooklyn to my parents home .1 week later I had a miscarriage. I always felt it was the food at Camp Lejeune . I returned to the base and luckily my husband was discharged and we returned home for good .

  • @christinemiller7238
    @christinemiller7238 Месяц назад +62

    I cried right along with these people. How tragic that it could have been taken care of immediately, but wasn’t for many years.

  • @kimjimenez4263
    @kimjimenez4263 Месяц назад +68

    The Marine Corps needs to make a memorial with all the names that don’t have a burial.

    • @lisawentworth6831
      @lisawentworth6831 Месяц назад +10

      that's the least they can do! How about some financial compensation!

    • @seavista4810
      @seavista4810 Месяц назад +4

      How will they make a difference?!

    • @stacycamacho59
      @stacycamacho59 Месяц назад +4

      ​@@lisawentworth6831 I believe that has already been in the works.

    • @ellentracey5274
      @ellentracey5274 Месяц назад +1

      That's a wonderful idea. But we can barely get them to take care of our veterans. 😢

    • @kimjimenez4263
      @kimjimenez4263 Месяц назад

      It won’t make a difference to most people. But some of these Women don’t even have a place to visit because the Military just getting rid of the babies and there are lots of them that happened too.

  • @user-wm1nu5cf9s
    @user-wm1nu5cf9s Месяц назад +39

    My husband was there in May of 1988 just turned 19. He now has Primary Myelofibrosis which is a Rare Blood Cancer or Chronic form of Leukemia. Which can progress to full blown Leukemia. They are still covering up!! There is no way it's was cleaned up on Dec. 30 1987. They have a Vapor Intrusion Study coming out in Aug. of 2024. Bet it will be after the law suite cut off date. All he needs is to be rated, he's having problems working to keep a roof over our heads. So sorry for everyone's pain. And the cover ups need to stop with them!!

    • @PlatinumIrishrose
      @PlatinumIrishrose Месяц назад +11

      Get a lawyer. They are available in regards to these problems.

    • @GoldenGraham25
      @GoldenGraham25 Месяц назад +4

      @@PlatinumIrishrose: Yes, a Civil Lawsuit.

    • @Lily-cm3nj
      @Lily-cm3nj Месяц назад

      That's the united snakes of america for you! But meanwhile they can look after every country but their own

    • @Lily-cm3nj
      @Lily-cm3nj Месяц назад

      That's the united snakes for ya but they'll go above and beyond for illegals aliens and send outrageous amounts of money to other countries but won't take responsibility for their own citizens especially our veterans.... it's disgusting and appalling!

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso Месяц назад

      I agree; we were there beginning Dec 1988👉same diseases of those BEFORE 1988😢

  • @higuoy
    @higuoy Месяц назад +33

    Heartbreaking. 😔 Someone knows what happen to the babies that weren't buried.

    • @kimjimenez4263
      @kimjimenez4263 Месяц назад +2

      I have a feeling they were sent to some lab for research or a mass burial. The lab sounds more like it in my opinion.

    • @higuoy
      @higuoy Месяц назад

      @@kimjimenez4263 😔

    • @pamelasarris8262
      @pamelasarris8262 Месяц назад +2

      My mind went to the babies being discarded like medical waste.

  • @Jebbie1976
    @Jebbie1976 Месяц назад +15

    My son, his wife & their 2 infant children just spent 4 yrs living on-base at Camp Lejeune. I stayed w/ them a lot to help w/ my grandbabies. We NEVER drank the water or used it for cooking because even now, when it's supposedly safe, it had a bad taste to it. They spent a fortune on bottled water for drinking & cooking. Thankfully my son recently got new orders & they've moved to a different state. #SemperFi 🇺🇸 #OohRah

  • @cymbelinebritain6799
    @cymbelinebritain6799 Месяц назад +66

    All the women who lost babies were treated abominably and without respect or care, but it really makes my blood boil that it seems as if the majority of black women were treated even worse. They lost infants, had miscarriages and stillbirths and there isn't even so much as a record of their babies' deaths. How inhumane. How can they be justly compensated when their babies were discarded like they didn't even ever exist or matter. Thrown away like garbage. It's beyond maddening and they deserve so, so much better.
    I'm bawling like a baby myself watching this, but seeing these women united in their pain, I'm certain that it gives them strength. I know that no amount of money can alleviate their decades of suffering and callous treatment, but I hope that they can get the apologies and compensation they so rightly deserve and can one day find some semblance of peace. 💔🙏🌹🕊❤‍🩹

    • @seavista4810
      @seavista4810 Месяц назад +2

      Sure. But the sorrow...🤬😡

    • @user-qc8do8rl6f
      @user-qc8do8rl6f Месяц назад

      ​@seavista4810 We can pray that the families will understand that they will see their babies after they pass away. 🙏

    • @seavista4810
      @seavista4810 Месяц назад +2

      @@user-qc8do8rl6f I hope they find solace anyhow..

    • @tamarflowers616
      @tamarflowers616 Месяц назад

      They most like used the black babies for experimental and research purposes like the did Henrietta Lacks

    • @user-te3ff8np1s
      @user-te3ff8np1s Месяц назад +1

      Maybe it would help to put a memorial place in the cemetery with their friends baby.In the same cemetery, and they would have a place to go.I lost 7 babies and have no idea ,but Iwas able to give birth to 6,all born premature but ,my oldest daughter passed away a few months ago and I'm dealing with that.

  • @staceyd7986
    @staceyd7986 Месяц назад +13

    This is truly heartbreaking - US government needs to sort this out now…F sending money overseas!!!

  • @stacycamacho59
    @stacycamacho59 Месяц назад +10

    Nothing upsets me more that these women went through this. And many of those babies with no markers.

  • @brendagariepy2885
    @brendagariepy2885 Месяц назад +4

    I have two brothers who are Marines and had been stationed there during those times. One brother has been battling cancer for years. He worked on base for 32 years. Retired MST Gunnery SGT. My other brother is battling an undetermined illness at this time. Doctors are working on what his illness could be.
    God Bless our past, current and future military men and women
    #JUSTICEFORALL

  • @user-uz8cm2rw7v
    @user-uz8cm2rw7v Месяц назад +24

    Losing a sibling I can sympathize. The loss of family especially due to the neglect of your own government is heartbreaking. This story will always be in my heart and I’ll always keep it moving forward ❤

    • @Ketowski
      @Ketowski Месяц назад +1

      So much for Republicans valuing soldiers. They only value those heading to war, not their families or their health.

    • @williamelliott
      @williamelliott Месяц назад

      It's a uni party. You were so quick to blame Republicans but check the history. Since 1950 both parties have taken charge and done nothing. You are still on the plantation and to dumb to realize it.

  • @andrewudstraw
    @andrewudstraw Месяц назад +18

    I was there in utero and as an infant and have suffered cardiac birth defects and 6 diagnosed severe mental illness problems my whole 55 years. It also killed my mother with breast cancer while I was in law school. These illnesses were used to ruin that law career, so no matter how much one tries, this poisoning poisons everything.
    The VA and the federal courts have refused to provide me with health care for cancer screening and mental health, including avoiding suicide. I have no health care now.

    • @andrewudstraw
      @andrewudstraw Месяц назад +6

      “Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand” (Gen 4:10-11).

    • @kimjimenez4263
      @kimjimenez4263 Месяц назад

      I thought this Pact thing was for families too. If not they have one for families. Contact your state representatives and senators

  • @janjohnsonamarillas3386
    @janjohnsonamarillas3386 Месяц назад +10

    I cried the whole time I watched this , these poor people having such horrible things happen to them , my heart goes out to them !

  • @seanberthiaume8240
    @seanberthiaume8240 Месяц назад +3

    I was there ! I can remember being @ Camp Lejeune. On the 4th of July!JUST out of boot camp(Parris Island 1/29 1980-1/27/1984).We had a 3 day weekend leave!Did my 4 year contract(3 yrs 11 months 27 days to be exact)got out.I keep getting these letters!Don't ask me how U. Sam knew I was there as I have no idea but asking me if I had any of the following symptoms.................but by the gace of God I was only there 2 weeks at best and am fine.Those poor poor people my God! I would later go on to re enlist in a National Guard Unit.Later ended up relocating so transffered to a combat engineer unit in West Virginia where I would end up doing 2 tours(2 yrs) in Iraq.2003-2004 & 2007-2008.Wow! Retired now.Seek out Jesus and His word/Holy Bible......

  • @pattypark8548
    @pattypark8548 Месяц назад +5

    My brother's son served at Camp Lejeune. My nephew rallies with his buddies from the Marine Corps about the water at Camp Lejeune. I didn't think about the babies that were affected. 😮😢

  • @AMERICANSANGELme
    @AMERICANSANGELme Месяц назад +10

    I had a friend from high school that just a few years back he passed away from cancer caused by Camp Lejeune. He was a marine also gone through Boot Camp there.

  • @justice4victimseverywhere532
    @justice4victimseverywhere532 Месяц назад +5

    My grandfather was at camp lejune in the late 60s into the mid 70s and died of cancer in 1985 at the age of 53. He was a marine who went to vietnam.

  • @deenawomack4661
    @deenawomack4661 Месяц назад +8

    It was so horrible for so many losses, and our government kept covering it up. This is very sad!

  • @kimjimenez4263
    @kimjimenez4263 Месяц назад +13

    That’s BS that have a time limit. They should have 50 yrs due to the silence and coverup of the Water. The Director of the hospital needs to be charged because they didn’t alert any high above.

  • @sherylemcalister1692
    @sherylemcalister1692 Месяц назад +15

    There were still concerns when my daughter was there in 1999 and 2000 because they got notices to boil the water. Both of her sons were low birth weight, had seizures, learning difficulties and were exposed to the water BEFORE the notice came out.

    • @eyeswideopen3304
      @eyeswideopen3304 Месяц назад +2

      Boiling water for drinking will not reduce PFAS exposures. It will concentrate (increase the level of) these chemicals in the boiled water. - PFAS Contamination of Water: Department of Health : Rhode Island Dept Health

    • @eyeswideopen3304
      @eyeswideopen3304 Месяц назад +3

      so why is it that the air force could not have filtered the drinking water in an appropriate manner....the following question/answer from EPA dot gov: Is it possible to filter PFAS from water?
      One common method for treating drinking water is Granular Activated Carbon (GAC). This method is used by many public water utilities because it is highly effective at removing a range of drinking water contaminants, including some PFAS......it is possible so why did they NOT do it....almost like the poisonings were quite deliberate, somehow these chemicals made their way in drinking water, they were aware, people were being harmed, and yet were not even informed, they took no steps to rectify only coverup.

    • @eyeswideopen3304
      @eyeswideopen3304 Месяц назад

      from Oregon dot gov : Don't boil the water! There is no evidence that boiling removes trichloroethylene and boiling water may increase risk of breathing in trichloroethylene in contaminated steam.

    • @eyeswideopen3304
      @eyeswideopen3304 Месяц назад +1

      and if it is the steam it would settle on surfaces as a residue....contamination when surfaces touched...from Minnesota Dept Health: How to remove TCE from water?
      Activated carbon filtration can remove TCE from drinking water effectively. There are two type of filters: systems that treat water for a sink or refrigerator (point-of-use filter) and those that treat all water entering the home (whole-house filter)

  • @brooklynsmomma88
    @brooklynsmomma88 Месяц назад +4

    So so greatful these ladies got to meet. Sending you all love light and healing!!

  • @jeannie316
    @jeannie316 Месяц назад +1

    It is unimaginable to think of the level of disrespect these women went through on so many levels! My heart goes out to them and the many others we didn't see. Praying the pain, both physical & emotional, will be replace with love, joy & peace!
    Much Love & Many Blessings! ❣🙏❣

  • @annestiles5598
    @annestiles5598 Месяц назад +2

    So sad these military families pay the ultimate sacrifice in more ways than just on the battlefields. My heart goes out to all these families. Such a sickening battle these families are fighting.

  • @kathybursey512
    @kathybursey512 Месяц назад +7

    I too lost a baby while stationed at Camp Lejeune . I had the baby in side of me till I got my tubes tied. After the surgery the did a D and C and took the baby. Makes me wonder what they did with my baby.

  • @FairyGothMotherG
    @FairyGothMotherG Месяц назад +3

    As a military wife of a patriotic, loyal man who proudly joined the US Navy @17yrs old in 88' & served 20+ yrs. I am absolutely mortified that this happened. As the sister of a Marine who was stationed at Camp LeJeune, I am literally sick to my stomach right now. I want to address all my sister military wives, had we been given orders to Camp Lejeune instead of NAS/JAX ~This could have easily been our story. We are taught as military wives to support & not to question our husbands commanding officers. They could literally get reprimanded if we did. So we are left to trust the very ones who were intentionally lying about our safety at home while our husbands gave their very FREEDOM to protect everyone back home. TRULY SHAMEFUL. PEOPLE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!! Suing may help financially, especially to the lawyers who take more then they should.. BUT It is just going to come out of our taxpaying dollars & No one will BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE SO THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!!!

  • @debbeekbreslin5591
    @debbeekbreslin5591 Месяц назад +5

    😢 this is disgusting. These families should not have to wait any longer to be compensated.

  • @josefinasoderholm6488
    @josefinasoderholm6488 Месяц назад +2

    Im watching this from Sweden. My heart breaks for all people effected by this immense tragedy and coverup. I can’t imagine going through what this lady’s have gone through I’m so sorry for your loss! Sending you all my love ❤️

  • @Nedra-ce4sw
    @Nedra-ce4sw Месяц назад +3

    1975 a girl born with spina bifida. Why? I used to say.? Born on base during delivery nurses "oh my God". I kid you not. Told she wouldn't make it til 11 . We buried her at 37. Then 2019 kidney cancer for me. . ................and I pray for us all

  • @marllissimpson716
    @marllissimpson716 Месяц назад +9

    This is so sad and pitiful 😭

  • @reginasanders9297
    @reginasanders9297 Месяц назад +5

    This is so sad and wrong, my ❤goes out to the families 😢

  • @tarimiller7192
    @tarimiller7192 Месяц назад +2

    This is so sad. Poor women. Poor babies

  • @pauline_raabe
    @pauline_raabe Месяц назад +4

    An absolute government disgrace. Cover up. And they have the gall to put a deadline on lawsuits by August 2024. Claim should be indefinite.
    😢 Heartbreaking for these mom's and everyone else affected 💔
    Rest in sweet paradise and peace babies you are loved.
    ✨️💖✨️🕊✨️ 🙏 ✨️🌹✨️ 👼 ✨️

  • @Roberttizzard420
    @Roberttizzard420 Месяц назад +6

    This is so very very heartbreaking😢😢😢

  • @virginiawilkinson5038
    @virginiawilkinson5038 Месяц назад +2

    My own sister in law is really sick, and my life long Marine brother has been gone 25 years.

  • @shalad4961
    @shalad4961 Месяц назад +6

    😢how incredibly sad and infuriating

  • @1badjane493
    @1badjane493 Месяц назад +2

    😭😭😭😭 My Heart hurts for these Women. I'm so sorry this happened to you
    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @PatsyHanlon
    @PatsyHanlon Месяц назад +5

    ❤😢 How come these Black 🌸 Women 🌸 NOT have their Precious Children Not buried in this cemetery along with the White 🌸Women’s🌸Babies I pray 🙏🏻 for all of these Women as we as Women know how they feel.Such an injustice for humanity We are all Of a race of all being Human,I’m so disgusted 🤬 With the govern Navy for how all these Families have been treated and lied too Bless Yous All as You’s continue Your fight of injustice. 💖🥰🍀

  • @ren_theHEN
    @ren_theHEN Месяц назад +6

    The terms “government” and “full disclosure” don’t work well together.

  • @mrsr003
    @mrsr003 Месяц назад +2

    To the woman with the still born baby girl 55 years ago, She would be two years older than me. And three years younger than my oldest sister. One year older than my other sister. This breaks my heart for her and her family, to think of who and what she could and would have been! I’m so sorry for that loss for your family!

  • @jamiedecker7853
    @jamiedecker7853 Месяц назад +6

    Sounds like the town I'm from. My baby died in 05 from many, many defects bc of trihalomethane in the water for over a year before letting the public know. Soooo many babies died. Very sad. I was the only one that tried to do anything but nobody would take the case bc it was too big.

    • @PlatinumIrishrose
      @PlatinumIrishrose Месяц назад +2

      Contact your Attorney General.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso Месяц назад

      What town?

    • @jamiedecker7853
      @jamiedecker7853 Месяц назад

      @@kimlarso several small towns in southeastern ohio, Athens County.

  • @juditheRVer
    @juditheRVer Месяц назад +1

    Such a beautiful sisterhood. Racism has no place on this earth. There’s not room for it. May God bless each and every one of the families affected by this tragedy ❤

  • @robinbonta5441
    @robinbonta5441 Месяц назад +7

    Toxic chemicals were dumped on the flightline at MCAS(H) New River everyday. We didn't wear gloves or respirators. I had a miscarriage there, but know filing a claim will only stir up painful memories without any resolution. 💔
    My heart hurts beyond words for all the families and fellow Marines.

    • @PlatinumIrishrose
      @PlatinumIrishrose Месяц назад +4

      But your calling them out on the losses you have suffered will go on the books/legal records. This may help others in their fight for justice! 🙏

  • @daniellarivera-juvera8865
    @daniellarivera-juvera8865 Месяц назад +1

    The women who lost their babies due to the negligence of the military (gov) deserve respect and answers. The fact that some of this Women don’t even know where their babies ended up its unacceptable. They served this country and the color of their skin shouldn’t have made a difference on where they were buried. We served in the Air Force and I assumed that when we served this country we were going to be treated equally. However, we dealt with disdain and contempt although, hidden under excuses and don’t rock the boat attitude. The government should make things right for this Soldiers and families.

  • @linsfisher5448
    @linsfisher5448 Месяц назад +2

    God i wish i could give Jeri a huge hug. Her experience with her pregnancy is just horrific. Its cruel and barbaric of a US defence force to continue something they knew full well was not going to end well.
    I say that about the US forces but ive no doubt my country is guilty of atrocities of sorts also.😡
    Our veterans and familys regardless of nationality deserve so much better

  • @armindarosas4440
    @armindarosas4440 Месяц назад +1

    Oh my heart. I am so sorry for these women. Hugs to each and every one of you. Love from Chicago.

  • @denisefleurant6592
    @denisefleurant6592 Месяц назад +6

    This what I don't understand why fight for your country why your doesn't fight for you?? 😭

  • @lisawentworth6831
    @lisawentworth6831 Месяц назад +4

    This may be an ignorant question, but why did the bad water only affect unborn children, not the adults drinking it? So why on earth did they let the women know their baby was dead, but not induce labour or do something?? Sounds like the worse medical malpractice and cover up...makes Erin Brochovic seem tame...

    • @deltalimabravo6727
      @deltalimabravo6727 Месяц назад +1

      Developing fetus’ are often hypersensitive to such toxins, especially during certain organ development early on. The earlier the exposure, the more systems are affected.
      Like for the adults, the children exposed (in utero &/or during childhood) have a significant risk of developing certain cancers. No one escapes the toxic exposure, it just doesn’t manifest itself so obviously but health conditions other than cancer are possible.

    • @deltalimabravo6727
      @deltalimabravo6727 Месяц назад

      Good question, it’s one way understanding the complex causes of various conditions can be hard to explain especially when such exposures are hidden/unknown.
      It really aggravates me how many times people have been exposed to various toxic chemicals and those who knew better and responsible did nothing about it or some cases on purpose (Tuskegee, radiation exposure (civilians & military)

  • @samanthaorologio6866
    @samanthaorologio6866 Месяц назад +1

    This is absolutely horrible and I’m only a few minutes in. Wow. Also how does this not have millions of views?!?

  • @brrealtyexpert
    @brrealtyexpert Месяц назад

    Semper Fi Sisters. I was there 1984-1987. My heart goes out to all of you. My ex-husband was also a Marine and he now has so many neurological issue. So much suffering.

  • @BarbaraMERRITT-eq1zu
    @BarbaraMERRITT-eq1zu Месяц назад

    My dad was stationed at Lejeune 2 separate times between 1957-68, we lived first at Tarawa Terrace and then in Berkeley Manor. My youngest brother was a year old the first time we lived there and ended up dying of leukemia when he was 11. We think now that he was susceptible to the toxins because his immune system had not yet fully developed when we first lived there. My parents continued to live in the Jacksonville area after my dad's retirement so they were aware of the "possibility" of the water being responsible for my brother's death. I'll never forget the tears in my dad's eyes when he realized what caused the leukemia...he felt guilty for having his family live on base.

  • @siggysuem
    @siggysuem Месяц назад +4

    That General should be named in the lawsuit and be held accountable for his negligence.

  • @user-zo9dq6qc3c
    @user-zo9dq6qc3c Месяц назад

    I know my tears will never not flow, but justice and love awaits us all in Heaven.

  • @BlasianGirl89
    @BlasianGirl89 Месяц назад +1

    My husband was at camp lejune in the late 80s and was diagnosed at Age 42 with prostate cancer.Terrible place Camp Lejune

  • @user-qc8do8rl6f
    @user-qc8do8rl6f Месяц назад +4

    I've gotten brain cancer in 1995 just as my Grandmother got it in 1977 thru 1980. I was on the Colorado River and Grandmother was on the Detroit River. I did research on the issues with the water problems. I contacted Erin Brockovitch Ellis to ask what I need to do to get our water cleaned up? She said it's filthy as Azz! So I wrote a letter to EPA to enforce BOTH Clean Water Acts-- and they wrote to the Austin American Statesman saying No. They won't enforce the Clean Water Acts. 🚱 What??? 😢
    But Lejeune was even worse off. Idk who to contact to fix that issue. I've been praying for everyone there who has various health issues. 😢

    • @user-qc8do8rl6f
      @user-qc8do8rl6f Месяц назад +1

      Bye the way: both of my husband's were USMC. So, we had problems too.

  • @depotdan4654
    @depotdan4654 Месяц назад

    My cousin passed last week. She was a Camp Legeune baby and fought cancer her entire life. Born in 1976.

  • @user-dw3lz4en1z
    @user-dw3lz4en1z Месяц назад +1

    I have similar issues. I should have 12 children. I have 1 that was born 1 year before we were stationed there. Since leaving there I've been through kidney issues, multiple miscarriages and still births and have autoimmune diseases and major arthritis throughout my body. I'm now in my mid 50's and declining & disabled since 2009.
    The cutoff should extend past 1987. I was there from 1991-93.

  • @MariaAgnesQuinn
    @MariaAgnesQuinn Месяц назад

    The woman at 12:40 will never leave my heart. I am days younger than her baby should be; but her girl never got a chance at life.
    May all these women, men and families find peace through justice

  • @GoldenGraham25
    @GoldenGraham25 Месяц назад +4

    So terrible for the men and women who suffer from this act of deliberate evil!
    Let me say it since may won’t: THE BLACK BABIES WERE TRASHED😢
    Maybe the organs were used, if possible….

  • @linja4588
    @linja4588 Месяц назад +1

    I feel so bad for the women who can't find their babies. Having grown up in the south I can tell you that even cemeteries were segregated and still are. I wonder if they were buried elsewhere due to racism.

  • @loridernick1265
    @loridernick1265 Месяц назад +1

    Our country at its finest!

  • @donnaellis9391
    @donnaellis9391 Месяц назад

    This is so very sad...while i was married we were military Army...i was called by a lady and questioned about camp lejune...told her i was not there...she did say ok thank you... We hung up...

  • @dianachinchello5530
    @dianachinchello5530 Месяц назад

    How sad this is! God bless the mommas of the lost babies in Baby Heaven! My heart breaks for you all ❤

  • @juliepeterson6639
    @juliepeterson6639 Месяц назад

    I’m heartsick. I’ve heard about class action lawsuits concerning this, but I have never heard Real stories. All prayers for all of them.

  • @ameeciaeagan-begay8090
    @ameeciaeagan-begay8090 Месяц назад +2

    These ladies. 😢

  • @DivineAncestorMessages
    @DivineAncestorMessages Месяц назад +3

    All the babies are there, some just don’t have markers 🙏

  • @lauren_winstead
    @lauren_winstead Месяц назад +2

    Wow these people’s stories are so honorable but these stories are wild

  • @Friday72
    @Friday72 Месяц назад +2

    I had no idea had bad the effects were. So sad.

  • @H4me7215
    @H4me7215 Месяц назад

    This is sooo sad. I am sorry folks that you lost your children.

  • @lisasikes4801
    @lisasikes4801 Месяц назад

    These people will probably never see a dime. They will continue to stretch this out til they are all gone.😢

  • @chandrasmith4887
    @chandrasmith4887 Месяц назад

    Heartbreaking. And to think, i know women in their early 30's, currently, that have served and are dealing with these type unfortunate, life changing, loses. Righ down to the undeveloped body organ and numerous other disabilities that the child would not survive. Im speechless.

  • @shondra6
    @shondra6 Месяц назад

    God bless these wonderful ladies... 🙏💜🙏💜 I haven’t heard of this before , I’ll be sharing it around. TFS.

  • @kookootrix1978
    @kookootrix1978 Месяц назад +11

    Vote to give our veterans the respect and resources they deserve. Vote Blue 🌊💙🌊💙🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗳🗽

  • @1Haitian
    @1Haitian Месяц назад +3

    48:10 I don't understand the lady’s response. That was cold for her to act like that towards her at least hug her. 😏💔

    • @BrownSugarBaby1992
      @BrownSugarBaby1992 Месяц назад +1

      😮cold blooded. She was nasty to that black lady. But was loving to the white lady. ❤Unbelievable 😢

    • @1Haitian
      @1Haitian Месяц назад

      @@BrownSugarBaby1992 Exactly! She shrugged her shoulders like, “Oh well” I found that to be a bit harsh.

  • @paigemills67
    @paigemills67 Месяц назад

    I cried practically through this whole story. 😢😢😢

  • @gretahelphrey7842
    @gretahelphrey7842 Месяц назад +2

    What an appalling and heartbreaking episode in our history. I think of these mothers living with their grief and guilt (for circumstances beyond their control), and I think of the authoritarian military system and the military men of rank who failed to protect and defend the soldiers in their charge and their families for decades.
    These men of rank were protected by privilege and power. And silence.
    I’m grateful for every person named (and unnamed) who fought for accountability and justice for so many decades.
    I can’t help but wonder about their failure to defend unborn life, or to defend a woman’s right to prenatal care. Are these same men and men like them now criminalizing a woman’s right to life-saving reproductive care? Are they demanding a woman carry a dead or unviable fetus to term in the name of the sanctity of life regardless of the threat to the mother’s own life? Clearly, these mothers and their children weren’t protected.
    What does it say that white babies’ graves were marked while black babies were ‘never recorded’?
    Racism. Misogyny. Power. Privilege.
    We have to listen and to work for justice as these heroes did. It’s work we can’t do without the tools of democracy.

  • @LifeisEnergy2
    @LifeisEnergy2 Месяц назад

    This is very sad 😞 Psychopaths are very infiltrated in our government system. Wishing all the best to everyone affected. I was a Marine spouse in Frankfurt, Germany, and then we moved to the Marine/Navy base at Camp Pendleton. I met the most supportive Marine families on this military base. I've never been alone. 🙏🏽🙏🏽😢😢💔💔

  • @jad4748
    @jad4748 Месяц назад +11

    But do we really know if they are all there. ??. We spent 2 yrs there 64 to 66 wife was 6 months pregnant when we arrived had our daughter in Nov 65 left end of May 66 lost our son later we all have problems but to extend can get any compensation yet. Government can't give military members any thing without some illness or disability but can completely supply 10 plus million illegals with everything they need no questions asked. So who has the real right to ask why

    • @shari9721
      @shari9721 Месяц назад +8

      They dont "provide everything they need no questions asked " , they are not "illegals" seeking asylum IS legal and they are not responsible or to blame for anything that has happened to you or for how you have been treated . Your anger and blame at them is misdirected , put it where it belongs . Stop blaming people and treating people badly for something they have/had nothing to do with , are not responsible for and are not to blame for . You shouldnt have been treated badly or the way you were treated and continue to be treated by your country , your government , it was wrong and it is wrong , the responsibility , blame and anger belongs there .

    • @richardpetrey2010
      @richardpetrey2010 Месяц назад +4

      I’m a retired Marine of 30 years and as a Marine Corporal was stationed at Camp Lejeune in 1972. Today in 2024 I am an amputee.

    • @michellemcdonald3978
      @michellemcdonald3978 Месяц назад +4

      My Husband’s Father was a Marine for 22 years and they was stationed there from 1973-1977 and my Husband was one of 4 children and he was the only one born there but , his Mom had a couple miscarriages thee and had so , many serious health issues until she passed last year. My husband and one of his Brothers suffer from a very rare blood clot disease the Doctors cannot find out what the cause is . His Parents dealt with a host of serious health issues and it’s so , heartbreaking to hear all these stories of what these precious people had to endure is absolutely maddening. My heart ❤️ truly goes out to them . They’ll never admit what they done , a huge coverup !

  • @PamelaAndersson-pr3fv
    @PamelaAndersson-pr3fv Месяц назад

    ver ver very sad what these families went through, may all the precious soul find everlasting lives.

  • @user-gr7nx1lr8t
    @user-gr7nx1lr8t Месяц назад

    Morally they owe these women no evidence for babies shocking

  • @Whenever1234
    @Whenever1234 Месяц назад

    Awww they are sisters for life 🧬 beautiful in the end❤ but still horribly sad 😢

  • @kenwschmidt
    @kenwschmidt Месяц назад +1

    I thought they did their research to publish their brochure. When you research a topic you do a thorough job.

  • @allisonlew4508
    @allisonlew4508 Месяц назад

    No one has ever been punished for the Camp LeJeune water poisoning.

  • @michellerosa2133
    @michellerosa2133 Месяц назад +2

    My Uncle was there.

  • @Ketowski
    @Ketowski Месяц назад +1

    Just wow …

  • @catemitten5857
    @catemitten5857 Месяц назад

    I cried.😢😢😢😢😢

  • @estherbarnslater7613
    @estherbarnslater7613 Месяц назад +2

    I’m one of those women

  • @mangotree2110
    @mangotree2110 Месяц назад +1

    This is heartbreaking 😢
    Americans aren't good at looking after their own people 🤬
    I feel sad for these people

  • @evaunghy3852
    @evaunghy3852 Месяц назад

    I was born in Sweden 1976, it makes you think. If I would been born there, I probebly would be dead. How could they do this and sleep good at night? I taught that marines had honor and dignety??

  • @Moore_cookies51
    @Moore_cookies51 Месяц назад

    GOD HEAL the broken hearts 💕

  • @user-ss6it2dq4q
    @user-ss6it2dq4q Месяц назад

    So sad....

  • @ellentracey5274
    @ellentracey5274 Месяц назад

    I Truly believe all your babies spirits went on to the Arms of Jesus and You will see them again as long as you truly believe.

  • @chantlebothma1846
    @chantlebothma1846 Месяц назад +1

    This is shocking! How do these ppl get away with this, murder! It's not of God Almighty! They will answer! These babies will be redirected! ❤ God is not asleep! They will pay! 😢😢😢

  • @Angelonwheels24
    @Angelonwheels24 Месяц назад

    Crystal is such a sweetheart I really wish I could be her friend

  • @lovelymitchell1981
    @lovelymitchell1981 Месяц назад

    Seems like that would wear a Officer out dealing with a person like her who kept arguing that she's truthful

  • @kirasantora8810
    @kirasantora8810 Месяц назад +2

    Anyone know the number to call to file? Was there from 1975 to 1981. I have many different illness. We where kids we played outside drank straight from the hose.

  • @cs7077
    @cs7077 Месяц назад

    These women have been treated shockingly, especially the non-white women who don't even have a grave to go to see. How inhumane! Somebody needs to be held accountable for this, yet I won't hold my breath. They will continue to cover it up. Absolutely awful - yet these were people prepared to serve their country.
    Shame on the government and all responsible for this. You knew about it, yet covered it up and treated those affected by it in a terrible way.

  • @tinamichalski1142
    @tinamichalski1142 Месяц назад

    Horrific