1-11-2012-click on image- the rest of the story

     
       today being jan. 10th. 2012, and here is the rest of the story as paul harvey would have said. the tractor and the dog pic is about the same place as i was when the plane went down. the dog is bud named for one of cosbys kids in his series on tv. anyhow bud was a good dog. stayed with me many years and i finally had to put him down. as i was enabling him to live. carrying him around. it was tough. like to think i am over it but don't think i will ever be. anyhow one day i was having a particularly miserable day and i had taken the tractor to the back field to fix the fence the cows tore down anyhow i had parked the tractor up the hill and set the brakes. i started down over the hill in a drizzling rain , pulling the fence behind me and i noticed bud wasn't with me and i looked all around the field, and he was no where in sight.. i looked up the hill and there he was sitting on the tractor looking much like he was on here. i always wished i had a picture of him on that tractor that day , and so i staged this pic of him. second is an indian i sold for a fair amount of cash. the feathers are fake .
       the pilot in yesterdays story lived and things calmed down and eventually they closed down all operations in the woods up there and didnt do anything for years, then we heard that another government agency had taken over, and they posted signs on the sprayed property saying public hunting. hunters would park at our farm and head up the access road and hunt deer and whatever else they could shoot that moves or doesn't move. an annoyance at best. , and then that woods was always a mushroom hunters delight. all the time , the government agencies knew all along radioactivity of sufficient strength to kill small pl;ants and animals was sprayed there, but no cautionary signs have ever been posted on the property or studies that anyone locally knows about to determine the site is safe.
       instead to hide the paper trail and all emotional guilt the department of forestry in their infinite wisdom dedicated this sight a public hunting area. to top it off  things get worse as they take major cuts in the woods, lumbering out virgin timber and selling it to marsh lumber in new philadelphia , ohio, to make paneling out of. now if you are spraying radioactive material in a suspended liquid over treetops and it would normally fall onto the leaves till the plane crashed and screwed the whole thing up. the leaves would suck up the radiation preventing it from actually reaching the forest floor. this uptake would permanently lodge the majority of the radioactive material in the fibrous wood pulp. as kids about a year after the crash the supervisors at the site would pay us a penny a piece to find dead animals and bring to them . we found some , but no major corpses were to be seen. anyhow i feel the wood stored it all till they logged the woods repeatedly totally restructuring and obliterating the forest floor in the area of the plane crash.
     so now they are on a 20 year cycle of harvesting trees and raping what ever natural resources they can from area. and what ever the muskingum watershed conservancy doesnt get , then the hunters who scour the woods in search of the glow in the dark bambies , that frequent the area, manage to get . mushroom hunting is still popular. and they now have the ability to drive and park in the woods as opposed to using our farm. im still concerned about water quality , and not quite sure how deer eating nuts from trees are fairing. or any of the small plants and animals are doing in comparison. kind of late to do anything but warn people and i guess that is what this is all about. it is a tragedy, that they used radioactivity to test in our backyard, but this was early 1960's and they were still learning what the effects of radiation were both good and bad.now if you can imagine that marlite manufactured paneling and this paneling was sold around the united states and around the world when it could. a lot of that may reside in your own house. so tonite when you go to sleep and you turn off the lights , if your paneling glows green you too might be one of the lucky ones to understand how shit happens.