Historic Midway shuts down

washtimes ^ | March 16, 2002 | By Audrey Hudson

[Valin]

I was wondering, if I were to write to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service do you suppose they could tell me where I could get a break?

[Mortimer Snavely]

'Last year, the Fish and Wildlife Service refused to allow veterans to install a flagpole to fly a newly designed flag honoring the atoll as a national memorial, he said.

The agency also denied the veterans a marble monument because the structures would endanger birds by posing a "strike hazard."'

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These nutcases at the Fish and Wildlife Service can do me a personal favor by doing something to themselves usually considered physically impossible.

[rmlew]

The EPA and Goony Bird have done what Yamamoto and 4 heavy carriers could not.
A sad thought as the 60th anniversary roles around.

[Thebaddog]

Perhaps someone might have the names of the administrators that are at the bottom of this tyranny. The internet can be a good tool to heat up the drawers of the losers that hide behind their government titles to impose their personal agendas.

[CDHart]

Isn't the Fish and Wildlife Service the same bunch that were planting lynx hairs and lying about the spotted owl?

Carolyn

[StriperSniper]

Yes, it was them. Diane Alden did a multi-part article on the lynx, then on the broader issue, she has another series. She does good work in this field and property rights (which are all tangled up in this mess).

[GotDangGenius]

I do not know the exact reasons for the failed negotiations, but it is clear to me that Veterans groups and their families should be livid mad at the Bush Administration. There is absolutely no reason to prohibit veterans and their families and the public from visiting a site where Democracy was defended with the lives of Americans.

If the "environment" was supposedly so "fragile" there, how come it was blown to bits and recovered just fine since the war? The "environment" argument is absolute baloney.

I suppose the people who lived there are going to be booted out?

This is the kind of thing revolutions are begun for- ceasing citizen property by virtue of insiduously removing the ability to live on it for the sake of "the environment".

President Bush be damed if this is allowed to stand.

This is a ripe time for all veterans to bring their greivances to the President and make him take a stand on the issue.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

YOU DON"T SEARCH ON EXACT TITLES! GET A CLUE!

[CDHart]

Thanks for the info and the link.

Carolyn