FRIENDLY FIRE with DON KIMBALL Saturdays 2pm

A Show For and About Veterans

Guests Ann Wright and Pat Elder – Military Families in Hawaii Protest Polluted Water

From the archives of Friendly Fire, today is a replay of its important and still relevant program with US Army Colonel (Ret.) and former US State Department official ANN WRIGHT discussing US Navy pollution problems at US Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickman in Hawaii. Also joining the conversation is US Military Poisons Project Executive Director PAT ELDER. Both of these activists with USN resistance to cleaning up and fixing leaking fuel tanks adversely affecting thousands of US military personnel. This show is a rebroadcast from 12/21.

About PFAFS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of man-made chemicals that contain carbon, fluorine, and other elements.

These chemicals have been in use since the 1940s and are found in a variety of products including firefighting foams, household products such as non-stick cookware, food packaging, and stain and water repellants.

The two most widely studied PFAS chemicals are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS); these chemicals were voluntarily phased out of production in the United States. However, as many as 3,000 other PFAS chemicals still are used in a wide variety of applications.

These chemicals are persistent and resist degradation, meaning they accumulate in the environment and in your body over time. – From Military Poisons Website