Downwinders

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Published Jan 28, 2012 10:00AM MDT
A candlelight vigil was held Friday at the Episcopal Church Center in Salt Lake City for the Day of Remembrance for Downwinders to mark more than six decades of nuclear weapons tests and the impacts they had on people around the West. Right, Sherry Milne, of St. George, holds a picture of her mother, Joyce Milne, who died of cancer, at an event at the Capitol. Nearly 1,000 nuclear weapons were detonated at the Nevada Test Site during the Cold War, exposing a generation of Americans to radiation…
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