Families like mine that lost babies after living at Camp Lejeune deserve justice

Audrey Williams Pride visiting “Baby Heaven.” She lost her baby, William, because of the exposure to the toxic water at Camp Lejeune.

Between 1953 and 1987 at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina more than 1 million military and civilian staff and their families lived and worked on base and were unknowingly exposed to contaminated water.

For too long, Camp Lejeune alumni like myself have suffered in silence.

Although the Veterans Administration and U.S. government have publicly acknowledged the deadly contamination, they have failed to provide support or acknowledgment for the families of enlisted personnel who continue to suffer from a myriad of health complications and fatalities.