Lung ailments emerge after service in Iraq
Photo credit: Newsday/Ed Betz | A handout photo of Bill McKenna, who died after returning from his second tour in Iraq, was on display outside the hall from where a symposium that featured national experts with evidence that troops who have been to Iraq are suffering elevated incidents of lung disease held at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook. (Feb. 13, 2012)
For Dina McKenna, Christmas 2009 was a happy time. Her husband, who had twice been deployed in Iraq during earlier holiday seasons, was at home for the holidays.
But the good times didn't last.
"Christmas Day, 2009, we were walking together by the river in Tampa," said McKenna, of Lindenhurst. "Two days later, he collapsed."
Monday, McKenna shared her husband's story at a Stony...
