Trinity Site downwinders keep up the fight

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1. "never understood why no one had warned them"

A good question. Either it was an absolute lack of concern for the humans in the area, or worse, a human experiment.

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“We can gather a lot of interest and support, but until Washington hears us, until people of power listen, this remains a moral and ethical dilemma that needs attention,” she said.

For many, she knows, it is already too late.

“The generation before me is almost completely wiped out,” she said. “The generation I’m a part of is scared sick.”

Annie Chavez is gone, dead of stomach cancer in 1992, a week after turning 60. Her sister also died of cancer. In her earlier years, Chavez had five miscarriages. Her children said she never got over the morning it snowed in July, never understood why no one had warned them, never slept at night without a light.

“Damn idiots,” she told her children. “Didn’t even have the courage to tell us before they did it.”

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