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From CNN article with Fred Dugan comments
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The following is an excerpt from a CNN.com article dated
January 12, 2001:
Tybee Island residents, known to ride out hurricane
warnings at the beachside bars, haven't been ruffled by the wayward bomb.
"It was all over the newspapers and the radio.
But nobody worried about it," said city councilman Jack Youmans, 75, who
was living on the island when the bomb was dropped. "If it's there,
then it's there. That's all."
Tybee Island Mayor Walter Parker said he hasn't
received a single phone call from residents about the bomb. And John
Mack Adams, an island retiree who writes about local history, hasn't heard
much other than a friend's joke that their property values might plummet.
I guess you gave the lie to CNN's argument that people
affected by the Tybee bomb could care less. CNN actually had the nerve
to quote an Air Force expert as saying that even if the bomb went
off it wouldn't matter . . .
If it exploded, the bomb "would create maybe a
10-foot diameter hole and shock waves through the water of approximately 100
yards," Robbins said. "Even boats going over it would not even
notice. They might see some bubbles coming out around them."
So there you have it direct from the Air Force
"expert." Watch for the bubbles. Isn't that ridiculous?
Sincerely,
Fred Dungan
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Any resemblance in this material to any
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