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Article: TOXIC CHEMICAL OPENED ANOTHER FRONT FOR IRAQ VETS
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2009
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INDIANAPOLIS - Stationed alongside hundreds of other soldiers in
one of Iraq's blistering deserts in 2003, Russell Kimberling didn't
worry much about the bright orange dust layered over the dirt and
sand around the abandoned plant he was assigned to guard.
When sandstorms hit every week or two, he had no idea the need to
cover his face and skin and keep the orange dust that had stained
the concrete there away from his food was any greater than normal.
If it had anything to do with headaches and nosebleeds he started
experiencing after a week at the Qarmat Ali water treatment facility
outside Basrah, the Evansville native and Indiana National Guardsman
assumed, he would have been told to wear ...