Update: Soldier health scare back in news

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http://www.news-journalonline.com/special/uranium/DUFOLO041507.htm

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Lori Brim cradled her son in her arms for three months before he died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

Dustin Brim, a 22-year-old Army specialist had collapsed three years ago in Iraq from a very aggressive cancer that attacked his kidney, caused a mass to grow over his esophagus and collapsed a lung.

The problems she saw during her time at Walter Reed, including her son screaming in pain while doctors argued over medications, had nothing to do with mold and shabby conditions documented in recent news reports. What this mother saw was an unexplainable illness consuming her son.

And what she has learned since her son’s death is that his was not an isolated case.

Lori Brim has joined other parents, hundreds of other sick soldiers, legislators, research scientists and environmental activists who say the cause of their problems results from exposure to depleted uranium, a radioactive metal used in the manufacture of U.S. tank armor and weapon casings.

[Horse with no Name]

1. The war that keeps on giving

:banghead:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. expect to see a lot more of these cases

dep. Ur. is nasty stuff. :(

[Emit]

3. kick n/t

[qanda]

4. The DU du deniers should be here any minute now.

:popcorn:

[donsu]

5. the neo con DU poisoning crime will not stay hidden

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