Paul Buckley says he's thankful today that the government finally admitted the truth. He and other soldiers, he says, were poisoned by the water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
The former Marine, now 46, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer four years ago. His doctors believe it was caused in 1985 when he was stationed at Camp Lejeune and drank water contaminated by underground fuel tanks.
"I was sitting down doing the bills, and I opened it up and I started reading it," said Buckley about a letter he got from the Pentagon. "I was pretty broken up. I called my wife on the phone and I pretty much couldn't talk."
He's fought them for years and says the military has denied, over and over again, that the water made him sick.
"It was a slap in the face, not to only myself, but literally to hundreds of thousands of others," he said. "People have died, families have been devastated, mine included and denial, denial, denial."
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