Yahoo!: My dad died of canceer because the Army sprayed chemicals on St. Louis in 1955!! | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 19992683 United States 10/04/2012 11:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family's apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn't know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air. Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 19992683 United States 10/04/2012 04:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Army has admitted only to using blowers to spread the chemical, but Brindell recalled a summer day playing baseball with other kids in the street when a squadron of green Army planes flew close to the ground and dropped a powdery substance. She went inside, washed it off her face and arms, then went back out to play. Over the years, Brindell has battled four types of cancer — breast, thyroid, skin and uterine. "I feel betrayed," said Brindell, who is white. "How could they do this? We pointed our fingers during the Holocaust, and we do something like this?" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24924194 United States 10/04/2012 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family's apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn't know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19992683 Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages. They died for freedum! |