At the time, everybody more or less had a military obligation, whether it was required or not.
And I just figured if I'm going to join a member of the military, I'm going to join a Marine Corps.
Regrets, none.
I was at LaJune from 60 to 62.
I had a friend, he was the same as I was.
He was probably 45, 46 years old, died of cancer.
I've got two good friends up in Pennsylvania right now.
We were stationed together, both with cancer.
Even when we were stationed there, there was one area on base down around the motor pool.
We knew back then not to drink the water because it tasted like gasoline.
It's whatever you would care to do. I'm just laying here volunteering for all of this.
His numbers were good this last time. I saw that, doesn't look too shabby at all.
I figure one more month like that, I'll be out of here.
He says the door.
The wife was a nurse. I taught EMT.
The daughter was a paramedic and my first thought was, what stage is it?
I knew about it, but I didn't know where I was to start with.
I have five days of chemo treatments and I skip a week and then I go back in for blood tests.
Then I skip a week and then I go back in and we start back over.
It's a week on and three weeks off.
Nothing from the government came from me to say, hey, beware, you drank bad water.
My buddy that died young, he started out the same as what I did.
He started out with a bone marrow form of cancer and it just spread.
Why are there 59 male marines with breast cancer?
There were all stationed at Lejeune.
Why are they having to file a class action lawsuit?
Shouldn't the government recognize there's something there?
Do I feel let down by them?
In a way, yes.
Marines watch out for marines, always did.
Your arm feel okay as far as the dressing at something?
It's frustrating.
You know there's a problem there, but the government's doing everything they can to ignore you.
The longer they can ignore the problem, the less likely they're going to have to do anything about it.
