[lit-ideas] Re: Homeland defense
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:55:47 -0800
On Feb 24, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
Early in 1942 a rumor rapidly spread one evening in the small Western
Oregon town where I grew up, that the 'Japanese fleet' was twelve
miles (I remember this number) off the coast near the mouth of the
Columbia River.
Which was about the only spot between San Francisco and the Canadian
border that was well guarded by coastal artillery. No one said, "Now
wait a minute, surely before they gathered within twelve miles of the
mouth of the Columbia River they'd have had to have pounded the bejesus
out of Fort Stephens? And we might have heard that, or at least heard
something on the radio?"
Where, by the way, was the air force? Portland?
David Ritchie,
active member of Dad's Army in
Portland, Oregon
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