Eddie Peterson served as a judge advocate at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from to he was already ticking off two of his biggest goals in life to work as a lawyer and to serve in the Marines . He and as many as a million other young Marines civilian staff and their family members who served and lived on base from to had no idea they were drinking bathing their children and washing their clothes in water contaminated with trichloroethylene TCE and other contaminants that it would later be linked to cancers and conditions including bladder cancer breast cancer female infertility miscarriage kidney cancer leukemia nonHodgkins lymphoma and neurobehavioral effects including Parkinsons disease . The Marine Corps confirmed there were dangerous chemicals in the water by the early s but did not alert many former residents of the base of even possible exposure until . In Congress forced the Marine Corps to notify exposed veterans and staff of the actual risk of the chemicals they had ingested . By then some were long gone gravely ill or on their way like Peterson who was diagnosed with the disease he says he received a Lejeunerelated health questionnaire in the mail . The statute of limitations for filing a claim had long expired leaving Peterson and other potential plaintiffs without a legal path forward . But while many veterans have already benefited from the PACT Act lawsuits are proceeding at a crawl and increasingly becoming wrongful death claims . The firm estimates of their cases are wrongful death suits are wrongful deaths . In recent months, some of the Lejeunes cases are proceeding to a … more likely to have . The Lejejeune cases have died from Lejeennes . It has become necessary to provide mental health services to those affected by the LeJeennes. The firm has a dedicated staff to provide a mental health