September 19, 2011 - A nurse inserted an intravenous line into Bethany Airel Bugay's right arm, and a saline solution followed by a dose of the chemotherapy drug Vidaza flowed into her blood.
Bugay, 51, of West Mifflin has a rare blood cancer, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Five days a month, she undergoes chemotherapy at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Clairton in preparation for a bone marrow transplant.
She served six months in Iraq in 2003 as an Army Reserves medic attached to the 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion. She ignited "burn pits" as part of her duties. The military and government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan used burn pits to dispose of a witch's brew of human waste, plastics and chemicals. Some pits covered 10 acres and burned day and night.
Bugay said she does not regret serving her country, but she is convinced that her exposure to the fumes, which contained benzene and other cancer-causing chemicals, caused her cancer.
"It took 20 years for the military to admit that some of the warfare was dangerous to our soldiers and they were going to have long consequences years later," Bugay said, citing Vietnam War veterans sickened by the defoliant Agent Orange. "I'm afraid that's what's going to happen to our Iraqi veterans and Afghanistan. It'll take them forever to figure out that these (burn pits) are contributing factors to these illnesses." read more>>>
As those war profiteers who ordered are still profiteering and not only on books, their wealthy class does as well, directly or indirectly, and none are taxed to boot!
No Sacrifice now a decade plus long added to the previous decades!!
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