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I am a Former Navy Asbestos Worker. I do not have Lung Cancer but I do have scarring and nodules in my lungs.

I have seen advertisemsent concerning the Asbestos Trust Fund that establishes a Trust Fund for People who have been exposed to Asbestos. This fund will limit the awards to Veterans anbd other people who have been exposed and have future problems resulting in asbestos exposure.

This Fund does not need to pass the Senate because of the following.

Asbestos is a Killer. Exposure to Asbestos causes Lung Cancer.

The Government and The Insulation industry knew this because the employees of the insulation companies started to die of lung cancer. They continued to use the stuff years after they found out and hid the results.

http://www.usaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=eiJPJ5OVF&b=120688

Call 202-224-3121 and voice your opinion against this Trust Fund. If it passes, People will be over a barrell.

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I lost both my father and my mother to asbestos poisoning. There is no way that I would support a cap on damages, and I've already voiced my opinion. And no amount of damages can mitigate the sadness and sense of loss my family and I have suffered.

Dad was a maintenance millwright at Ruberoid (later GAF) in South Bound Brook, NJ. My mother developed the disease from secondary exposure just by washing his clothes. There is no justice in setting a cap for a loss such as this. My father once told me that the company always knew beforehand when OSHA was coming to inspect, and the industry, as jstacy said, knew for many years that asbestos was killing people. They didn't care. They robbed my daughter of her grandparents, and my brother, sister and me of our parents.

If you've ever known or loved anyone with this disease, you already know how cruel it is. Its victims slowly suffocate to death, and there's not a thing one can do to ease the suffering.

There's hardly a day that goes by that I don't think about this. I'm sorry, but that's the truth. Please call that number and keep in mind what I've stated here today.

Thanks.

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Just as a note to those that read through this post to also take into consideration those who were exposed to asbestos while on deployment to former Soviet Bloc countries like Hungary. I was there and the buildings we occupied were all covered, floored, and insultaed with asbestos.

I was stationed with a gentleman who did asbestos abatement when not puuling his guard time. He commented how the bldgs we were occupying were emitting tremendous amounts of asbestos from all the broken tile and siding. He said these same structures in the US would have consituted a major clean-up operation. But we worked in them for months on end. Gotta love the Army.

The Commanding General for the 21st TAACOM, MG Wright for Operation Joint Endeavour died something like 3 years after our stint in Hungary, of Lung Cancer. nuff said.

I have done some research and have found papers wear the Army had to perform some types of remeediation for asbestos in these countries. So if you were there now you know.

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