Crusade for veterans who may have been exposed to asbestos in theservice

"Crusade for war veterans continues" by Rick Badie in the August 9,
2008 The Atlanta Journal Constitution discusses the research of cases
of military personnel who may have been exposed to asbestos in the
service. It tells of Lawrence Hess, a World War II Navy veteran, who
helped with the research and was diagnosed in mid-2000 with an
asbestos-related pleural disease and died in November, 2006. The link
is
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/sha...e_for_war.html

Asbestos is still legal in the U.S. According to the U.S. Geological
Survey, the U.S. imported and used an estimated 1,820 tons in 2007.
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pu...2008-asbes.pdf

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a bill to ban the
future importaton and use of asbestos (it is already banned in 40
countries) and provide funding for medical research into treatments
for asbestos-related diseases. You can write you representative to
support the bill from https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml A ban
to prevent future use of asbestos is not enough. It doesn't help
people who are sick, who have been exposed and who will be exposed in
the future to asbestos already in place.