I know which side of this fight John Paul Jones would be on. Someone once tried to take his ship:
Fort Trumbull Just Beginning The Fight
Published on 7/6/2005Letters To The Editor:
I am writing about the editorial titled “It's time to move ahead,” published June 26.You have got to be kidding if you think for one minute your words of nonsense could change the way we feel about our homes.
Do you think because you can choose to stop printing the opinions of the people from all over this country that the Fort Trumbull residents are going to go away?
Do you think because you write words about compensation that that is supposed to make us feel better when we have told you repeatedly that this not about money?
Do you think that you can continue to talk about your development that we, the residents of Fort Trumbull, were never against where there is more than enough land to build whatever you want to build and at the same time let us keep our homes?
Do you think you can continue to talk about the Coast Guard Museum and how it will come to build in Fort Trumbull? I will chase them from my property.
I will go on every radio talk show, every television show and tell this horror story about how the New London Development Corp., the city of New London and the United States Supreme Court are kicking seven homeowners out their homes.
I have every name, number, address and e-mail for each person who has contacted The Day and hundreds of others that have contacted us and each I have spoke with has assured me they will stand with us if and when that day comes. I will contact each of them if I need to, to stay in my home.
We will not leave our homes.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Susette Kelo
New London
(Via F.R.)
Posted by floridacracker at July 6, 2005 06:43 AMI didn't know the bass player from Led Zeppelin was concerned with property rights.
Posted by: PB at July 7, 2005 12:25 AMI wonder why some British drummer got named after an American Naval hero.
Posted by: Donnah at July 7, 2005 10:06 AMI made a joke like that at Mount Vernon. Seems George Washington had a sculpture of JPJ in his house, and the tour guide was telling us about it..."So Washington was into Zeppelin, eh!?"...We were on a class trip, and my dad was one of the teachers present...he was the only person who got the joke. The tour guide had no idea what I was talking about. I didn't feel too appreciated.
Anyway, I got a fresh copy of that newspaper delivered to my apartment the other day. I figure I'll hold on to it for a few decades then hock it on EBay.
Posted by: ArklahomBoy at July 7, 2005 10:09 AMHe actually changed his name. It was originally Baldwin.
Makes it even more puzzling.
Posted by: ArklahomBoy at July 7, 2005 10:10 AM