At 27:00 in
Attorney Charles Bonner, one of the team representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan: You had these sailors come in, they are not only going to rescue by dropping into the water and rescuing people out of the water, but they were drinking desalinated sea water, bathing in it, until finally the captain of the USS Ronald Reagan alarmed people that they were encountering high levels of radiation. As a result of this exposure, the 51 sailors that we represent right now have come down with a host of medical problems, including cancers, and leukemias, all kinds of gynecological problems… people with thyroid cancers, people who are going blind, pilots who had perfect eyesight but now have tumors on the brain. These service men and women are young people 21, 22, 23 years old and no one in their family had ever (inaudible) any of these kinds of illnesses before. The only causal link for these kinds of illnesses is this exposure to radiation, high levels of radiation when they responded to this Operation Tomadachi.
At 33:00
Bonner: These sailors had none of these kind of medical problems, now they have back pains, memory loss, severe anxiety, they have testicular cancer, they have thyroid cancers, they have leukemias, they have a host of problems, rectal and gynecological bleeding, a host of problems that they did not have before they went in to Operation Tomadachi. And it’s only been three years since they went in.
At 33:45 in
Bonner: The Japanese government… is in a major conspiracy with the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to hide and conceal the true facts as to what led to these service men and women being exposed to high levels of radiation.
At 34:30 in
Bonner: We’ll be adding approximately 20 sailors, bringing the total number in the lawsuit to 70 to 75.
