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I just learned something that is far too rich, far too juicy to keep to myself! A contact in Hawaii working on the demilitarization of the Aloha islands has shared some really great news!
Well, actually it’s better than awesome news for Hawaii. But rotten luck for another island…
As word has it, the Air Force’s B2 stealth bombers, that had been dropping 2,000 lb. bombs each month since September during “training” exercises into Depleted Uranium contaminated soils at the Pohakuloa Training Area, did not take place in the month of January.
Instead, it appears the B2 bombings exercises were moved last month to the Kwajalein Atoll, one of the Marshall Islands of Guam. Kwajalein’s Reagan Test Site has been a ballistic missile development and “test” site for the US Army for over 40 years.
The relocation of bomb drops out of Hawaii just goes to show that the actions of dedicated, vocal activists with respect for their land, environment, and health of their people can and do make a difference!
Stories like this Hawaiian victory remind us all that we are far more powerful than we even realize.
It kind of makes you wonder what we all could do if we were to really work together on the things most important to us (think health and well-being of our citizens for starters). Imagine what we could accomplish if we were to actually make our heartfelt opposition to the military’s rampant environmental degradation and toxic and radioactive contamination of our country be known!
The only down side to this whole deal is, what about the unfortunate 2,600 individuals who live on the Kwajalein island? Reportedly, the people who reside there do so with express permission from the US Army. Chances are more than good, therefore, that the vocal protests of the Kwajalein inhabitants - now being pelted with 2,000 lb. bombs dropped from higher than mountaintops - will, unlike the Hawaiian islanders’, be slim to none.
Sure hope those B-2 stealth bomb-dropping pilots have mighty good aim.
