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I'm glad that I read somewhere that you are halfway through your hubby's sea tour. Countdown in process.

We have Duller airport here, which I know you've heard of. There has been a huge industrial buffer around Dulles - always intended to keep houses from encroaching on the airport and then starting the whining about takeoffs and landings.

A big parcel was sold - and the developer apparently didn't "need" all the land for industrial development and a HOUSING developer bought it. Guess what has now started? Yup - complaining about the flights that go all night, the noise, the takeoffs and landings over their houses which wake up their babies, and on and on and on. I wrote a letter to the editor that actually contained the lines in my earlier post. How long has the airport been there? When was your house built?

The complainers make me crazy.

Occasionally the jets and choppers flying protection over DC wake me up in the middle of the night. I maintain their is one pilot who uses my chimneys as an outer boundary marker! Anyway, when I wake up, it takes a minute before I realize what it was that woke me up, realize that it means the President and the Capitol must be in danger again, and then I realize that THAT is why the jets are flying, and I immediately feel safer and roll over and go back to sleep.

I grew up next to Mitchell AFB in Garden City, LI, NY.

Jets are the sound of freedom.