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Date Posted: 03:20:33 09/18/03 Thu
Author: Josh
Subject: Re: US SERVICEMAN STATIONED IN AMBERG WEST GERMANY WHEN CHERNOBYL
In reply to: BuniiLynn Thomas 's message, "Re: US SERVICEMAN STATIONED IN AMBERG WEST GERMANY WHEN CHERNOBYL" on 19:05:27 01/06/03 Mon

My father was stationed in Wildflecken, Germany from 1987 to 1989. We arrived in January of '87. I was 9 years old. Wildflecken was about the closest american personnel came to the DDR border with the exception of those stationed in Berlin. I suffer from thyroid cancer now. I've been living with it since I was about 16. Whether this has anything to do with residual fallout from chernobyl, which blew only 8 months earlier (will we really know how bad its effects were?) I'll probably never know. Although, thyroid problems are notorious for being caused by childhood radiation exposure, most notably from radioactive Iodine (a common isotope in nuclear fallout) because it is absorbed by ones thyroid cells, eventually causing health problems. My thyroid is also a rather extreme case, and among american males, is extremely rare. My problems however are not so uncommon to males who are now adults in eastern european and russian areas around the chernobyl disaster sight.

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