I think there's a link to all the details on welcomehome.org, but 
basically it was told to me this way: govt wanted land in arizona or someplace, 
indians said no, govt said 'okay, u know that land in MS u want?  we will 
fux0r it, then.'  indians still said no, govt fux0red it.
COn Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Elias Sinderson wrote:> Heh. Never mind the perfectly good desert in the southwest, right? Or is 
> that area too hot for desert warfare training? I'll never understand.
> 
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> CDale wrote:
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> >Okay, I'll ammend that to LIVE OLD tree saving, like the thousands of 
> >acres of virgin pine forest that was razed here in MS so that our military 
> >can practice desert warfare?  Fought it for years, lost, now there is a 
> >stand of trees up and down Hwy 49 that's supposed to try to hide the fact 
> >that a huge portion of the Desoto Ntl. Forest is gone.
> >
> 
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