2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: Excavating "Hades" in Spring Valley, DC
 
Zeroing In on Mystery of an Old Site Called Hades

By THEO EMERY
New York Times
March 17, 2012

WASHINGTON - For decades, affluent families have flocked to Spring Valley, a quiet neighborhood hugging the northwestern boundary of the nation’s capital. True to its name, magnolias are blooming and daffodils carpet the yards.

But during World War I, soldiers called it Death Valley. It was here that the Army cooked up chemical weapons, launched poison-packed mortar shells and sent gas clouds billowing over the fields.

When the war ended, soldiers buried the fearsome chemicals and munitions in pits that the Army forgot existed.

Now, the cleanup of what was known as the American University Experiment Station is nearing a crucial point. This spring, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to tear down a house that may be atop a lost burial pit that an Army sergeant called "Hades" in a grainy 1918 photograph.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/us/hunt-zeros-in-on-the-mystery-of- an-old-site-called-hades.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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