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Jul. 22nd, 2003 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rootofnewtI went to The American University in DC. It's adjacent to the Spring Valley neighborhood.
As I was catching up on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
lotsofmonkeys' journal entries, a particular line from a Post story caught my eye:
"More weapons of mass destruction have been located in Spring Valley over the past four years than have been found in Iraq"
The chemical weapons program was more or less *started* at AU. The campus was leased to the government during wartime and this is what was done.
Spring Valley is a *pricey* area. Ambassadors live there, houses are large and gorgeous and yards are meticulously landscaped. A lot of stuff uncovered was in AU's intramural practice field. The childcare center on campus was closed and moved after high levels of either arsenic or cyanide (I can't remember which) were found in the soil of the play yard... It's been an ongoing problem *publicly* for a decade now.
The really sick thing? Most of my friends and I just treat it as a sick, cynical joke... We joked around about ordering extra sides of mustard powder, or about petitioning the university to provide us with the hazmat suits worn by the inspections team whenever they walked onto the practice field.
As I was catching up on
lotsofmonkeys' journal entries, a particular line from a Post story caught my eye:"More weapons of mass destruction have been located in Spring Valley over the past four years than have been found in Iraq"
The chemical weapons program was more or less *started* at AU. The campus was leased to the government during wartime and this is what was done.
Spring Valley is a *pricey* area. Ambassadors live there, houses are large and gorgeous and yards are meticulously landscaped. A lot of stuff uncovered was in AU's intramural practice field. The childcare center on campus was closed and moved after high levels of either arsenic or cyanide (I can't remember which) were found in the soil of the play yard... It's been an ongoing problem *publicly* for a decade now.
The really sick thing? Most of my friends and I just treat it as a sick, cynical joke... We joked around about ordering extra sides of mustard powder, or about petitioning the university to provide us with the hazmat suits worn by the inspections team whenever they walked onto the practice field.
