Army's secret chemical testing in St. Louis neighborhoods during Cold War raising new concerns
Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.
In the mid-1950s, and again a decade later, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, at schools and from the backs of station wagons to send a potentially dangerous compound into the already-hazy air in predominantly black areas of St. Louis.
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Have you ever been to Saint Louis? I don't think the army did a good enough job
ReplyDelete11:32
ReplyDeleteYes we have actually. The pictures they always show on TV are nothing like the city really is. Usually they use a certain angle to get the picture of the arch so that you never seen the old warehouse in the background.
hey 11:32 , you got it right.
ReplyDeletethe army needs a medal of honor.
the army sprayed agent orange on all the soldies in Nam and Korea mostly all white soldiers , get a life with that other crap about st. louis.
ReplyDeleteget a life with that other crap about st. louis.
ReplyDeleteOctober 6, 2012 1:27 PM
Why? It's all true. And people, they have been spraying civilians for decades.
Even in office buildings, elevators, etc. Come on, I'm sure you military guys know what I'm talking about.
All about the $$$$.
ReplyDeleteThey should have tested in Moscow.
ReplyDeleteOr, wherever Ann Dunham grew up, then we wouldn't have a communist in the White house!
Got chemtrails?
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