Bad Water: Contamination At Camp LeJeune

Patrick interviews Mike Partain, who was born on Camp Lejeune, and decades later contracted a rare cancer connected to the base. He joined Jerry Ensminger’s quest for accountability from the government. Mike details for Patrick their against-all-odds victory to pass legislation that finally gets a win for the veterans and families who had lost so much from the poison water at Camp Lejeune. 

Bad Water is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, Adam Prince and Dan Benamor. Reported, produced and written by Adam Prince. Executive produced by Patrick Elizabeth Sims and Kevin Brown. Based on Patrick's book, Eyewitnessed: Believe What You Cannot See, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Eyewitnessed-Believe-What-You-Cannot/dp/1477278052

Edited, sound designed and mixed by Jaxson McLennan. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez. If you're enjoying the show, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you're listening, and subscribe now for future episodes.

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Patrick speaks to Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger whose tragic loss of his daughter inspired him to become an advocate for people affected by the poisoned water at Camp LeJeune. He spearheaded the effort to pass landmark legislation forcing the government to own up to its mistakes and care for the victims.

Bad Water is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, Adam Prince and Dan Benamor. Reported, produced and written by Adam Prince. Executive produced by Patrick Elizabeth Sims and Kevin Brown. Based on Patrick's book, Eyewitnessed: Believe What You Cannot See, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Eyewitnessed-Believe-What-You-Cannot/dp/1477278052

Edited, sound designed and mixed by Jaxson McLennan. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez. If you're enjoying the show, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you're listening, and subscribe now for future episodes.

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Patrick goes from interviewee to interviewer, speaking with a military veteran whose poisoning from Camp LeJeune devastated his life. 

Bad Water is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, Adam Prince and Dan Benamor. Reported, produced and written by Adam Prince. Executive produced by Patrick Elizabeth Sims and Kevin Brown. Based on Patrick's book, Eyewitnessed: Believe What You Cannot See, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Eyewitnessed-Believe-What-You-Cannot/dp/1477278052

Edited, sound designed and mixed by Jaxson McLennan. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez. If you're enjoying the show, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you're listening, and subscribe now for future episodes.

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Producer Adam Prince interviews Patrick Sims, whose fit, martial arts expert husband inexplicably became terribly ill and died as a direct result of his time at Camp LeJeune. At the time, this left Patrick mystified, until she learned the culprit for the bizarre medical horror that would not only befall her husband, but damage her children as well. 

Bad Water is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, Adam Prince and Dan Benamor. Reported, produced and written by Adam Prince. Executive produced by Patrick Elizabeth Sims and Kevin Brown. Based on Patrick's book, Eyewitnessed: Believe What You Cannot See, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Eyewitnessed-Believe-What-You-Cannot/dp/1477278052

Edited, sound designed and mixed by Jaxson McLennan. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez. If you're enjoying the show, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you're listening, and subscribe now for future episodes.

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You've read the headlines, now hear from the people directly affected by the contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp LeJeune, in this new docuseries from Voyage Media, Bad Water.

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