Sun, Mar 28 2004

Not I, Said The (Several Decades Late) Navy

Thanks to Drew at FARK.com for the heads up on this story.

I have respect in general for our armed forces, but this is just wrong. Whoever it was from the Navy who had the plane stripped and left it in the swamp long ago should have thought of the plane's true worth long before this. Now that someone else has done the work and wants to restore the plane to working condition, people from the Navy show up like the greedy barnyard animals in the Little Red Hen. The U.S. Justice Department is tossing a lawsuit against this man. What a total waste of taxpayer money. I hope the man wins the suit and gets to keep and restore the plane. If you go to Google and type in "Lex Cralley" and "Princeton" (where he lives) you'll get his mailing address. Send him some moral (or even monetary) support if you like. The Navy officers/personnel and the U.S. Justice Department lawyers work for all of us. We all own that plane in a way. If I could vote on it, I'd vote that we let Lex do the restoration.

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