Military Families Wrestle With Marine Camp Water Contamination

PAT KINNEY pat.kinney@wcfcourier.com, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Sun, 02/19/2017 - 2:00am

WATERLOO — When she was a little girl, Antonett Cox ran to hug her daddy when he headed off to war.

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