My screen name comes from this work. I have presented thousands of old men dying from asbestos related diseases for deposition. A few in my early career were in WWI, most were in WWII. Those deposition records contain the personal stories of every major and minor battle of the wars. Most of these men were reluctant to speak about it, but they had to for their case to continue. The Army and especially the Navy exposed these men to lots of asbestos. The military contractors knew the harm their products caused at that time.
I have heard first hand accounts of Omaha Beach, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, Bataan Death March, Pearl Harbor, the fall of Saigon... Sad accounts all. To know that companies like General Electric, which spews propaganda 24/7/365 through their network, doesn't pay taxes and receives tax money instead, lobbies for war, and who knowingly killed our own servicemen and women with their asbestos insulated turbines and other products, makes me sick.
Now asbestos companies claim to be the victim of us evil, greedy trial lawyers. We force them into bankruptcy so it's our fault! What they don't tell you is that in our fascist country they had the bankruptcy code changed to create a special bankruptcy just for them (524 G). They get to set up underfunded trusts to pay the victims and are free from any further liability to the victims. Johns Manville was the first and their trust pays less than 5% of what it was supposed to pay the victims. Most do not know that while Haliburton was getting no bid contracts for Iraq they went through bankruptcy and washed their liabilities along with their subsidiary, Brown and Root who has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
I hope someday some author will go through these depositions and tell these men's stories so we will hear the true costs of war and what these companies did to make a buck!
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