Camp Lejeune’s victims are turning into ghosts haunting the federal judges and attorneys struggling with a flood of claims and lawsuits over harm from contaminated drinking water at the Marine Corps base in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1980s.
One of them is Dan Mason, a Marine from September 1975 to September 1979 who spent more than a year at Camp Lejeune when toxic chemicals in the coastal base’s water supply were at a peak. Mason was diagnosed in 2012 with multiple health problems, including a mass in his kidney and a type of lymphoma, and died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2023 at age 67.
His wife of 43 years, Jeanie Mason of Corvallis, Ore., is determined not to let his death be forgotten.
