the Air Force ROTC graduation festivities<\/a> at the University of Colorado.<\/p>\nIn the strange world which is Boulder, you’d think the jet had dropped napalm over the community.<\/p>\n
It was so loud! It was unexpected! My children have been traumatized for weeks! They should have told everyone ahead of time it was going to happen! I’m sure it was only 100 feet off the ground, not 1,000!<\/i><\/p>\n
Perhaps some of it’s Post-9-11 Jitters. Perhaps some of it’s the … well, let’s avoid stereotypes (heh) and just say unique <\/i>Boulder culture, in which things Military are immediately suspect, and where anything that disturbs the tranquility (without filing eleventy-dozen forms with the City Council, in quadruplicate) is insensitive to the point of trauma.<\/p>\n
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