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Marine Officer Found Not Guilty Over Alleged Role in Haditha Killings

One Marine finds justice in the military court system.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A Marine Lieutenant charged charged in connection with the killings in Haditha, Iraq, Andrew Grayson, was found "not guilty on all charges" by a military court martial yesterday. The Marine officer's defense team leveled the accusation against prosecutors that they were relying on a botched and politically motivated investigation.

1st Lt Andrew Grayson was charged with obstruction of justice, making false official statements and an attempted fraudulent separation from the Marine Corps.

Marine Who Lost Child From Contamination at Camp Lejeune will Appear in Washington

The culprits are the chemical agents TCE and PCE.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A retired U.S. Marine who lost his daughter to leukemia from drinking contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, will appear in front of a Senate Subcommittee next week to discuss the importance of maintaining a current database of information about the various risks brought about by chemical exposure.

Jerry Ensminger is one of thousands of former Marines, Marine family members and civilian base employees who were exposed to the contamination that is also faced by those who served at the now closed El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California.

Federal Agency Money Bickering Could Spell Doom for Sick Marines

A squabble between the Navy and researchers threatens funding of a vital study that can help Marines rendered sick and worse by water contamination.

(SALEM, Ore.) - We reported recently that thousands of Marines and their families, as well as civilian employees at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, are sick from contaminated water on the Marine Corps base.

McCain`s Attack on the Last Vietnam POW Underscores a History of Poor Discretion

John McCain, who isn't known for surrounding himself with winners, used a CIA confirmed enemy agent to discredit the last POW to leave Vietnam.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The story of Marine Pfc Robert Garwood, the last POW to leave Vietnam, is a sad and twisted tale that most of us will never know the full truth about.

Special Memorial Day Poems Are a Tribute to Veterans

In truth, most veterans are not respected by our mainstream society. These poems are an honest look at the plight of the those who serve their country.

(CANTON, N.C.) - This collection of poems was submitted to Salem-News.com through a contact in our work on the TCE (Trichloroethylene) related cancer cases and other illnesses stemmimg from water contact at the Marine Corps Base in North Carolina, Camp Lejeune.

PTSD: One Million Plus American Military Victims

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - It is comforting for me as a combat infantryman and physician for PTSD victims to see an article in the Oregonian newspaper on PTSD citing disgrace over the gross mistreatment of not only hundreds of thousands of battle veterans, but the mistreatment of all PTSD veterans going back even to the Civil War.

The figures usually given by the newspapers is 300 thousand PTSD veterans. What is not mentioned is their families. They have PTSD also. One of the symptoms or signs of PTSD is hypervigilance, in other words veterans are as "jumpy as a cat".

Marine Death Camp: Camp Lejeune Trichlorethylene - the Culprit

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Very few people including those who lived on the Marine Corp's Camp Lejeune facility knew or know that it is a toxic (lethal) waste dump.

El Toro Marines Should be Aware of Possible Contaminant Based Health Hazards

The base closed in the late 90's, and around the same time massive amounts of contamination affecting the groundwater there were discovered.

(EL TORO, Calif.) - 23 years have lapsed since a TCE plume was found near the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and advocates say no Marine veterans, dependents or civilian workers have been notified by the government.

Military Crimes: Nothing Learned and Nothing Gained

In Vietnam we rallied blindly for accused soldiers when their crimes were terrible, and today we are blind and apathetic toward Marines whose charges are far less significant.

(SALEM, Ore.) - One morning during the Vietnam War, soldiers who pillaged an entire village murdered hundreds of innocent civilians. One junior officer received a court martial and a slap on the wrist over it. That was the massacre at My Lai. The nation as a whole failed to comprehend the enormity of it.

Today, Marines who may or may not have been involved in the death of a single suspected insurgent are being prosecuted many say, without fairness, and they are watching the ruining of their lives as the Navy does their best to do them in. Nobody cares.

Pendleton 8 Exposed, Part 3

A multi-part series on the Marines of Hamdania, Iraq, who experts say were coerced and forced into giving self-damning testimony.

(CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.) - In this chapter we’ll be talking about the actual information that could (and should) free these men. Military judges have cited national security concerns.

The defense asked for a jury made up of people with the appropriate clearances already in place. However, doing this would take away the government’s excuse for hiding anything exculpatory. The result is that the defense attorneys can only sit and watch as the truth gets buried.