My point is do any of you have any kind of relative that worked the Exxon Valdez oil spill?  Well let me fill you in on few things that has happened this past 20 years; let's start with me.  In 1993 I had half my stomach and intestines removed because of cancer.  I have been sick ever since.  I had my neck discs replaced last year because of bone degeneration.  Every time I eat something a tooth comes out.  I have a rod in my left elbow because it would not heal.

     My child was still born and deformed.  There are concerns over having enough red blood cells to walk about without keeling over or having seizures.  There are concerns about my liver a couple of years ago.  How I keep going and hold body and soul together I don't know. 

     I used to weigh 250 pounds. Now I am lucky to even eat.  I shattered my right patella in 1990 and it never healed; so the doctors just took it out and said there was no point in putting in a fake knee because it would never take.   Am I making a point here yet???  I am on Oxycodone 10-325 all day because my lower back has crumbled to nothing.  Last week now I have tumors in my lungs, and that's only me, yeah the Master Captain for Exxon to supply chemicals to the oil spill workers which 90% are now dead. (We don't know what happened to these workers, actually, because no one has looked into it.)

     I have over the years lost a lot of good friends, Captains, mates, & deckhands that where all told the same thing: that these chemicals are safe, even though they would come back to my vessel after spraying and tell me they were pissing blood.

     I would report this back to Exxon and they told me,  "Do you want to keep your job?" There are hundreds of sick people out there and it's the biggest cover up by Exxon, OSHA, The EPA and the ADEC, it also goes back to the RCAC in which I was a main person on the panel for Traffic Safety, I resigned after I found out over 90% of that group were being paid off by Exxon.

     I ask myself a hundred times a day about the people that have died and the people that are sick, not to mention birth defects, and then I come to a conclusion on how our Government could allow something like this to happen and then close the door.  I know the Law and our statutory limitations ran out along time ago, but didn't the coal miners have theirs overturned?? ... are not the people that worked years ago in asbestos now getting their dues???  How can the United States of America refuse us our just compensation???  You tell me, because I do not know. I'm not angry, I'm way beyond that.  You see I will probably die before you ever get off your dead asses and do anything.  Oh by the way I was exposed to INIPOL EAP 22 (which is 12% 2-butoxyethanol) for several years. So maybe you see my point.  Then again you can just sit back and in a couple more years we'll all be dead.

Sincerely,

Captain Richard D. Nagel

I was 54 on March 15, 2009

http://www.valdezlink.com/evos/rdn.htm

http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/myfriend.htm

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If you know someone who worked on the oil spill, speak up  *

What I had in 2003  http://www.valdezlink.com/evos/capt-r.htm

Referring to the Exxon Valdez oil Spill cleanup, 

"The human toll alone is not worth it!" 

Dr. John Middaugh, Alaska State Dept of Epidemiology - 1989

Classic - Overview News Article should be considered for input

LA Times 11/5/01

Soldiers in the first gulf war were exposed to 2-butoxyethanol, too *