I failed to mention previously that early in February, forty-one local religious leaders, including many religious sisters from Winooski, the city most heavily to be impacted by the F-35s, wrote again (as we had in 2012 and 2013), continuing to ask our Congressional delegation and the mayors of Burlington and Winooski, to reconsider their support for the basing of the F-35s in the most densely occupied part of Vermont, when they are relatively untested, plagued with problems, projected to be the most expensive weapon system in the history of homo sapiens.

There is no a legal case going forward, questioning whether the Air Force complied with environmental standards and asking for a new study of the situation.  What's the rush?  Well, they say that the F-16s are aging.  Yet we also read from the Air Force that they have ways of keeping them in good shape.

It's amazing to many of us, long-time supporters and workers for Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Bernie Sanders, vocal critics of the war machine and the ways it encourages us to get involved in wars), that they will not stop, look both ways, and allow for a reconsideration.  They do such good work in so many ways.  We truly do not understand what is going on here.  There are rumors of economic interests.  Rumors are rumors, they are not the truth.  But inquiring minds want to know.