A map of Jacksonville hangs in City Hall in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
These images were made for a story by Anna Schecter, Cynthia McFadden and Melissa Chan for NBC News about mothers based at Camp Lejeune who were ‘inexplicably’ suffering miscarriages, stillbirths, and/or gave birth to children with severe disabilities, not to mention the myriad health outcomes the women experienced themselves; they are seeking justice now that it has come to light that these outcomes were caused by contaminated drinking water.
Jeri Kozobarich sits in front of a map of cemetery plots in the Jacksonville City Hall in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Headstones scatter across “Baby Heaven” at the Jacksonville Cemetery in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Crystal Dickens sits in the Jacksonville City Hall in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Records of cemetery plots sit in the corner of an office in the Jacksonville City Hall in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Jeri Kozobarich sits in her hotel room in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Jeri Kozobarich touches a map of the cemetery in which her baby is buried in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
LaVeda Bennett adjusts a pin on her jacket in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Crystal Dickens shows off her dialysis fistula in her hotel room in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
LaVeda Bennett sits in a hotel hobby in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
The sun peeks from behind City Hall in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Weeds and grasses crop up against the New River in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)
Crystal Dickens gets up from her seat in her hotel room in Jacksonville, NC on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Rachel Jessen for NBC News)