Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100206:20:33:00
The people who live there blamed the u.s. military because for decades it used part of the island for weapons testing. the military says there is no link. it happens on the island of vieques. ab abbiboudreau has this story. >> reporter: nearly 40 years ago on this tiny remote american island of vieques, off the coast of puerto rico, a young u.s. marine was stationed as a security guard. >> i arrive on the island the 3rd of july 1970. i was 17.50. >> reporter: at age 57 this is the sergeant now. he's had colon cancer twice. he's nearly blind and needs an oxygen tank. he has lou gehrig's disease...
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