From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 12:14:52 PDT
Why not just bring the Civil Defense back?
Um...excuse me but the Civil Defense never went anywhere, thank you. They
(we, for I am a member) have always been around, are still around, and
continue to be a mis-managed, ill-equipped, under-funded and largely ignored
force. We answer to many names.* Your local fire department is technically
part of CD, as is FEMA, haz-mat response units (both paid and volunteer),
various auxiliary police units, most telephone company trucks and many of
the workers who drive them, and the list goes on.
Through budget whittling, complacency, and ignorance on the part of
government and the general public, the once-important CD force is a mere
shell. It surprised and saddened many of us who hold CD credentials when we
heard all the hoopla about Gov. Tom "Deer caught in the headlights" Ridge
getting his cabinet position. The "homeland security department" was already
there, just waiting for someone to notice it.
MV content: I once had an M37 that had the CD sticker on the doors, under
several layers of paint. It had belonged to a local ambulance service.
* My (former) telephone company ID card, along with my Auxiliary Police ID
and my Fire Department ID all had/have the CD symbol affixed.
A P Bloom
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