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DCN: 10769
BRAC Commission
OCT 12 2005
Received2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
2521 S. Clark St., Ste. 600
Arlington, VA 22202
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I personally think the base should go because it is not a good idea to deal with terrorist'
and that is what the BRAG Commission appears to be doing--terrorizing the City of Va.
Beach. Do you do this to I lot of cities?
I grew up in one of the houses that you want the City to take. My parents moved into that
home in 1943. That house and a large percentage of the other houses in the APZI were
there before the jets. They were there when you decided to move more jets in.
Do you honestly think that the City will give the people in those homes enough money to
go out and buy another home? How do people who are retired, with paid up mortgages,
start ally over again?I can understand saying to the City that you would like for them to stop the new
development but to say you have to get rid of what was there before the base. So far as
I'm concerned take your Base and move it anywhere you want. Just be sure when you
do, let the people living there know what you want to do and ask them before hand
whether they want the base.
What the City has to realize is that there are many big cities that survive without a Mast
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