‘Shame’: Locals, former Laurel Bay residents talk cancer diagnoses, Navy probe

More than a dozen children fighting cancer. An even higher number of adults.

The commonality? They all lived in military housing developments in northern Beaufort County.

A Marine wife, the mother of a child recently diagnosed with leukemia, brought attention to the subject with a viral video this month.

Following an article on the issue earlier this week by The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette, many of our readers on Facebook were quick to share their thoughts. Several of those previously lived at the same housing development.

Here’s a sample of that response.

This story was originally published January 12, 2017 at 1:52 PM with the headline "‘Shame’: Locals, former Laurel Bay residents talk cancer diagnoses, Navy probe."