Marilyn (Aubertin) Cook, 82 in 2017: Did you ever have anyone talk to you about the Japanese/German warfare balloon that popped over Kewa? Delia Lawrence, they had eight children and they lived at Kewa. They were outside one day and they saw this balloon and it burst. And they said what happened was it was like these little airplanes you make, paper airplanes, just gillions of em, masses of em come out of that balloon and disintegrated. [Government people] came from everywhere. They threatened people.You are not to talk about it. It was never in the newspaper. They didn’t want to create panic. But they never could talk about it to any official so it was hushed. And Delia ended up with sores on her legs especially, arms and legs, wherever she was exposed. It was a running oozy sore. It was crusty spotted and it oozed. I didn’t know about this thing at the time. I went down and spent a week with em. I ended up with some sores on my buttocks. In those days, everything was like syphilis. If you talk of that you’re promiscuous. I was terrified to talk about this for fear someone would think I had syphilis. I was 12 or 13 years old and it finally got so bad I had to [go to the doctor]. I get them periodically; every year they come back on me. I’ve talked to doctors about it. They don’t have no idea but say [not to worry because] 'You’ve lived this long.'... Cancer went crazy around Kewa.
Marilyn suggested a connection.
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