Letters

To the editor:

Recently, The (Wilmington) StarNews ran a report, “Silent No More,” about those serving at Camp Lejeune from 1953-1987. Up to a million people “drank, washed, swam and cleaned their dishes and clothes in water tainted with a toxic stew of chemicals and contaminants.”

As I read each victim’s story, my heart ached. Acknowledgment and compensation came way too late. It cannot make up for the loss of life and chronic illnesses these families have experienced over the decades.

To the editor:

Is God living in you? If not, he wants to. God loves what he created, and he especially loves human beings because we are the most like him (Gen. 1:27). What could possibly cause us to not want God in our lives? It is our natural inclination.

To the editor:

This year, the annual cost of caring for individuals living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias will reach $259 billion, $175 billion of which comes in direct costs to Medicare and Medicaid. Yet in 2016, for every $100 the U.S. government spent on Alzheimer’s research, $16,000 was spent by Medicare and Medicaid to care for those living with the disease.

To the editor:

Do you live in the Shell Point subdivision? Do you drive like a racecar driver? Maybe you were the one who ran over a fluffy white and black cat. You could have pulled her out of the road after you hit her.

She loved the outdoors most of the time. She laid under a bush in the yard, but she always met me at her eating place every morning.

I have never cried as much in my life as when I buried her.

All the streets in our area are short streets. There is no need to drive like a racecar driver!

Jean Garland