Childhood exposure to buried chemical weapons may have caused cancer deaths.

Evidence

Nancy and Robert remembered how, as children, they and their four siblings had serious skin problems. Robert’s were so bad at times that he would lie awake scratching all night. “Sometimes I had to sleep with restraints on my arms,” Robert recalled, “to keep me from tearing up my skin.” They started to wonder if there might be a connection between the chemical munitions and the deaths of their parents. Their mother had died in 1984 of colon cancer. Two years later, their father, Robert, died of prostate cancer. Several of their neighbors had contracted cancer as well. Their uncle and aunt, who’d lived just a few houses away, also both died of cancer. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 402

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 402