Information for 'downwinders' — those affected by Nevada nuke tests

[Oeditpus Rex]

Friend of mine read this in the Salt Lake Tribune and asked me to post it.

http://166.70.44.77/comments/read_comments.asp?ref=6835966&sec=News#58870

It needs to be known also that RECA compensates not only the downwinders, uranium miners and millers along with the test site participants. RECA is also extended to the military personel that were present at the Marshall Islands in 1946 during that series of so called nuclear testing of which my father was one of the test subjects of the feds. This act will compensate the surviving spouse and/or children of anyone that was subjected to radiation exposure from 1946 to 1962.


Related story: http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_6835966

[pitohui]

1. K&R

ridiculous the survivors have had to wait so long for compensation

[havocmom]

3. They made them wait until a lot of them were dead

x(

[pitohui]

4. yes they did, it makes you wonder if they did so deliberately

i have often wondered if they thought that by delay and by delay they could eventually getting out of paying victims

[havocmom]

5. Not unlike tactics of large corporation facing lawsuits that are gonna be costly

Just keep it all tied up in court for a decade or two until those pesky complainants drop dead from what ever damage the corporations did to them.

Tobacco industry is good at it.

[havocmom]

2. Thanks for posting that

My uncle and a whole lotta guys he worked with all got leukemia about the same time VA kept telling them they weren't sick, until it was obvious they were dying.

He died in 67 and I am STILL pissed at the way he and his former colleagues were treated by the government they served. Figure the depleted uranium our troops and innocent Iraqis are inhaling will be another round of trouble.

Thanks for posting info for those who might still be alive after all the crap that was done and for their families.

[ThomWV]

6. You know, this is the most interesting thing to me

I was raised by my grandparents and when I was a child my grandfather had two pairs of sunglasses that I remember. They were as dark as a welder's mask, far to dark to see through even on a bright day. I remember asking what they were for and being told that they were used to watch the atom bomb go off.

What in hell would my grandfather be doing with them? He was too young for WW-I and too old for WW-II but he worked in Washington in the development of the most advanced of communications gear for the Navy Department until his retirement around 1960.

[troubleinwinter]

7. A friend of mine is a widow

..a Utah Navajo woman whose husband, a uranium miner, died of uranium poisoning. She and her family have been trying for 30 years to obtain the compensation that the gov't admits is due her. She is 95 now.

[IDemo]

8. And Idaho downwinders continue to get the shaft

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?issue_date=12-21-2005&ID=2005106945