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Lori Lou Freshwater

Lori Lou Freshwater is a writer and investigative journalist. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Earth Island Journal, the New York Daily News, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

A crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 167, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, rides in the back of a UH-1Y Venom as it approaches a landing zone during a training exercise near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on June 17th, 2016.
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What Happened at Camp Lejeune

I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate.

By Lori Lou Freshwater