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To: PhiKapMom
I did a little time at New London, just next door to Groton, so naturally...
150 posted on 07/12/2003 10:08:08 AM PDT by CaptRon
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To: CaptRon
That's what I figured! I would have rather been in Groton, CT! At least down there they liked the military. My husband was on an Industry assignment for the Air Force at RCA in Burlington so we figured living outside Fort Devins -- too conjested in Bedford where Hanscom was at, that the people would be more hospitable. Boy were we wrong -- they loathed Pres Reagan, the military, and anyone associated with it. We had decals on our cars from Norton AFB and used to get comments put on the windows if I left the car parked at the local stores. Began shopping in NH!

When the Challenger blew up, I had to keep my two oldest kids home for school for three days because I was called by another a mother whose husband was a Fort Devins to warn me about the anti-military attitude of the school and how the kids would be blamed as one teacher had already been on the radio blaming the military for the accident. She was right -- when they went back to school, my oldest daughter was confronted and called her Dad called names! Their dislike for President Reagan was more than I could take. I almost tore that school down when I found out what was being said. For next few months until we got out of there the teacher's made sure my two kids did not have problems. I have such a bad feeling to this day for that community that I will never, ever sit foot there again!

152 posted on 07/12/2003 10:17:41 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Bush Cheney '04 - VICTORY IN '04 -- $4 for '04 - www.GeorgeWBush.com/donate/)
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