and so they stayed in tularosa. five generations of lucy's family have lived here since trinity.so this is where the kids played? yes. we played. we spent the summers here. her daughter, doris walters, shows us around the family's adobe home and the acequia, the irrigation ditch. they played and bathed in and now believe was irradiated. i never thought i would get cancer, just like my great grandmother and my grandmother and all my aunts. it gives me chills. walters, who is now in recovery from breast cancer, says it was a distant cousin who first opened her eyes to a possible connection to nuclear tests 19 years ago. very few people would even listen to me. after surviving her own cancer, tina cordova began to see links to other illnesses in her community, stretching all the way back to trinity. i know of no people that died the day of the bomb, but it was the beginning of the end for lots of people. cordova began doing her own research, collecting some 18,000 grassroots health surveys over the last two decades. epidemiological research, she says the government never did. viewin