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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:40 PM Original message |
Just some perspective - lots of us baby boomers were down-winders |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. 250 miles downwind from Trinity. Dead thyroid. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. My thyroid is halfway gone, too. But we're both still here. |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 07:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Yep, mine's completely gone. Because I have a job with decent |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Grew up in a town that used mill tailings with traces of uranium |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Many of us were exposed from military nuke testing from late 50's early 60s |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. There are a lot of people who are really hurting tonight - but for |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. Ever hear of the "Gamma Ray Forest" on Long Island? Brookhaven opened drums of radioactive material |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. Somehow this explains alot. |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I assume you were trying to make a "funny?" |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. I remember when they'd broadcast the daily strontium-90 levels on the radio. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. My husband remembers being told not to play in the blue snow. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. There is a story about John Kennedy being briefed about fallout |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. That impacts bone, must have led to more bone marrow cancer nt |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. My sister lost her fiancee to Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - I think |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I was just thinking the same thing |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
15. I live in Radium City |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
17. True for the children in the area I grew up in. |
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