Charity Webb: Full Body Burden Chap 1

        Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen’s story of what she actually experienced growing up in Colorado near Rocky Flats. Rocky Flats is a nuclear weapons plant that operated for years without being truthful of what was going on there. The residents in the area around Rocky Flats knew a little of what was going on but they were for the most part kept in the dark as far to the dangers it presented to the communities. I think this book is also disturbing. It makes you realize how much the government hides from the public. Not only that but how much people avoid the dangers. Kris mentions many times that there are things they just don’t talk about in her family and one of them is Rocky Flats. Many residents knew what was going on but no one wanted to confront the government on it. When Rex’s daughter, Kristen, died of cancer he wanted to sue because he believed it had to do with the plutonium in the soil and the test from California agreed but Rex and everyone in the neighborhood knew it would cost too much money for something they were not sure they could win.