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11/21/2003 Archived Entry: "Right down the road from me..."
Right down the road from me...
Well, in the next county, actually. But still close enough to home to make me angry.
In her 15 years as an Army wife -- and before that as an Army daughter -- Hope LaMonica has lived in many different places: A two-bedroom apartment at Fort Polk, La., a three-bedroom townhouse in Fort Lewis, Wash., a house with a pool for $750 a month in Colorado Springs, and, for the last four years, a 1950 row house in East Meadow in a swath of military housing known as Mitchel Manor.Marked only by a blue government-issue sign, the rows of 399 attached houses have been home to military families for 53 years. It's a place where neighbors babysit for one another and check to see if you need anything before heading off to buy groceries.
LaMonica had hoped to finish the last four years of her husband's active duty with her family in the complex off Front Street. But that's probably not going to happen.
The Navy, the branch of the service that owns the complex, is negotiating to privatize all of the housing it owns from New Jersey to Maine, and soon Mitchel Manor -- a community not on any street map, but a community nonetheless -- will disappear.
"We have enough instability in our lives without this," said LaMonica, 37, who has been leading a resident fight to save the units.
Does anybody remember a certain presidential candidate saying 'Help is on the way' in 2000? Some help.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Yeah, the Repuglicans won the war against poverty years ago (the impoverished lost) now I guess it is time for them to win their war against grunts...
Posted by TechnoPeasant @ 11/21/2003 12:21 AM NY
Time to rise up!
Stand up for each other!
Consider the concept of
neighboring...used as a verb.
Posted by Aristopahanes @ 11/21/2003 10:31 AM NY
I won't take up the Editor's valuable disk space by posting the revelent section, but if you go here:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/site/docs/doc_platforms.php?platindex=R2000
and look at the section on the military, you'll see that the Republican Party talks the talk, but has fallen dreafully short of walking the walk (it doesn't even appear to be on the same road.) It's enough to make Abraham Lincoln spin in his grave.
Lucky for the GOP, though, that Dittoheads rarely fact-check; they just keep repeating someone elses statements and call them facts. It's all part of Project Mushroom, where we are kept in the dark and fed a lot of garbage.
Posted by Mixer @ 11/21/2003 10:54 AM NY
bush's plan to "help" the troops seems very much like another very bad plan that is being instituted here in chicago. its called the "10 year plan to eliminate homelessness" the basic plan is to close all of the homeless shelters, and programs for the homeless gradually over ten years. i guess the idea is that in chicago all the homeless will freeze without shelters (my wifes pantry had a few homeless clients freeze to death last winter) and once they are all dead, homelessness will be ended. if i didnt know it was real i would think it just a bad parody of swift's "a modest proposal"
Posted by justin @ 11/21/2003 11:11 AM NY
