Fighting The Good Fight: Former York Township, IL Precinct 112 DuPage County Dem Committeeman: Don't Let President Obama Turn His Back on These Marines

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Don't Let President Obama Turn His Back on These Marines

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From: "Danielle Brian, Project On Government Oversight" <danielle@pogo.org>
Date: Apr 10, 2014 1:22 PM
Subject: Don't Let President Obama Turn His Back on These Marines
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

This letter is from Jerry Ensminger, Master Sgt., United States Marine Corps (retired).

Dear Friend,

For more than two decades, I have been fighting to expose the truth about the water contamination at U.S. Marine Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. While I was stationed there, I lost my daughter Janey to Leukemia. It turns out that the water we had been drinking and bathing in was contaminated with dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals. Incredibly, the military leadership knew about the contamination but did nothing to rectify the problem for five years—they had to be forced to do so. In fact, they spent years engaging in a massive cover-up of Camp Lejeune despite Navy water standards that would have, if followed, prevented most of the human exposure to the contamination. And now that the truth is known, the government is actively seeking to evade responsibility!

This cannot stand. Tell the President to Stand By the Victims of Camp Lejeune

President Obama believes that we as a nation have an obligation to do right by the men and women in uniform. He has promised that the federal government would take steps to make a real difference for those still suffering from the devastating contamination at Camp Lejeune. I was at the White House in 2012 when he signed legislation named after my daughter saying, “First, this bill ends a decade-long struggle for those who serve at Camp Lejeune.” Not quite.

President Obama’s Department of Justice is undermining his promise. Remarkably, DOJ recently sent a brief to the Supreme Court urging an interpretation of a federal pollution law that supports a known polluter—and would let the government off the hook for Camp Lejeune.

Please Sign POGO’s Letter Asking President Obama to Keep His Promise to Camp Lejeune Victims

The President can’t say he is standing by Camp Lejeune victims if his administration supports limiting their potential legal claims. The government’s preposterous stand suggests my fellow Marines and their families should have sought justice before they even knew they had been poisoned!

Join me in telling President Obama that they deserve better. It’s time to really end the suffering. Otherwise, Semper Fi—always faithful—should have no meaning to any Marine.

http://bit.ly/1lTm6Bc

Sincerely,

Jerry Ensminger
Master Sgt., United States Marine Corps (retired)

P.S. I'll be in Washington, D.C. on April 23 with environmental activist Erin Brockovich and others when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up this issue. Please join us to show your support for the Camp Lejeune victims. You can find info about the rally here.