Y-12 Beta Chemistry Building 9206

My father passed away in 2012. After his funeral, I had the task of cleaning out the family home in Oak Ridge. Dad was the kind of man who never threw anything away, and there were stacks of boxes containing technical books, documents, and papers in every room. I packed all the boxes of documents into a rental storage unit near my home, and over the next few months, I carefully went through them, one by one. In doing so, I came across material that ranged from merely "interesting" to downright "disturbing,", especially in light of the issues discussed in our previous conversation. Three, in particular, caught my eye:

 

• A Memorandum from Dad to Dr. Edward C. Riley of the Medical Department, dated February 18, 1947, the final day of work for my mother and many other CEW/TEC workers, and

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• a letter from Dad to Dr. John Cruse, M.D., dated November 5, 1979, and written a few weeks after my mother's death on October 17, 1979.

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• Correspondence relating to Dad's EEOICPA claim and the work my mother and her co-workers did at CEW during the Manhattan Project years, including eighty-three pages of handwritten notes from which he created a brief addendum to said claim.