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Show their dolphins. Along with those "beneath the deep," my cry for safety should have extended to those in the pews around me, should have extended to my own body. Recent tests of the ground water below Pearl Harbor indicate high amounts of contamination, in particular tertachloroethene. The permeable nature of the Hawaiian soil facilitates its movement, and its reach is broad. Nearby wildlife refuges as well as the Pacific Ocean itself are threatened. The report says nothing of the people who live on or near the base, the home port for a great part of the Pacific Fleet. All those years when I did not consider myself part of the Navy, all those years feeling on the edge of things, outside, I was in the meantime living, breathing, drinking its very center. 180 |
