Most people assume the battlefield was the deadliest place for our servicemen. But the numbers tell a different story.
8.6 per 1,000 soldiers were killed in action, yet 14 per 1,000 shipyard workers died from asbestos-related cancers. It’s a sobering look at the "hidden" cost of war that continued long after the guns went silent.
My own grandfather survived the ships, only to lose his life to the very insulation that built them.
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