[AT] funny..

Tue Oct 31 04:34:44 PST 2006

Yep that's in the right area.  I never did know exactly where it is.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] funny..

> YES! I heard about this for the first time a couple years ago.  The site
> is not too far off of NC Hwy. 111, on the way to Junebug Green's salvage
> yard!
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:12 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>
> Heck John,
>
> Don't feel bad about the unexploded ordinance.  Over in Wayne county,
> about
> 2/3 of the way from your place towards mine, there is an atomic bomb
> burried
> in a field!  It fell off of a B52 near Seymour  Johnson AFB.   They know
>
> about where it is but it is deep in the ground.  The government has a
> chain
> link fence around the area where they think it is.  The only Internet
> reference I could find quickly is copied below.  CBS 60 Minutes did a
> story
> about it some time back.
>
> "24 January 1961
> A B-52 bomber suffered structural failure and disintegrated in mid-air
> 12
> miles north of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC,
> releasing
> two hydrogen bombs. Five crewmen parachuted to safety, while three
> others
> died when the aircraft exploded in mid-air. The bombs jettisoned as the
> plane descended, one parachuting to earth intact, the other plunging
> deep
> into waterlogged farmland. To this day, parts of the nuclear bomb remain
>
> embedded deep in the muck. The area is off-limits, and is tested
> regularly
> for radiation releases. More information can be found at the Broken
> Arrow:
> Goldsboro, NC site at www.ibiblio.org/bomb"
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>
>
>> Yep, Camp Butner alright. Don't know when they abandoned it after the
> war
>> but it wasn't long after to the best of my understanding. All the
> original
>> roads in that town still carry their military names. There are still
>> several bunkers in the woods. And lots of unexploded ordinance
>> remaining----the army is still fighting that problem. To this day most
> of
>> the families who were displaced still get hot under the collar when
>> talking about it. It's not so much of having to give up your farm to
> help
>> the good of the country but it is how they were treated. My
> grandfather
>> was more sawmiller than farmer. If he wasn't in the field then he was
> in
>> the woods logging. Upon receiving his eviction notice one of the
>> stipulations was that he was not to cut down another tree effective
>> immedialtely. The house they were living in was 4 years old---it
> became an
>> officers club. My dad, who was 12 yrs old, pulled every bit of wiring
> out
>> of the house. Every screen was pulled off the windows. Anything they
> could
>> take with them they did. Trying to move a farming operation and
> working on
>> 2 farms a considerable distance apart took its toll healthwise on my
>> grandfather. He died the same year they moved here. Afterwards dad
> quit
>> school to help his mother farm. Fortunatley they had several tennants.
>
>> Then again this cost them when the allotment for tobacco progarm began
>
>> since most of the tennants were not high yield producers. Supposedly
> the
>> feds were going to allow them the chance to buy back their land but
> never
>> did. The state got first crack at it. They bought it and then
> proceeded to
>> cut the timber. Talk about adding insult to injury!!!  The area my
> dad's
>> family was from was known as Veazey Ridge. The newspaper headline in
> '42
>> read "For the first time in 200 years there are no Veazey's on Veazey
>> ridge". Well, we've been here for the past 60 years although the farm
> is
>> down from 600 to just 60 acres. To the best of my knowledge most of
> the
>> Veazeys are out of farming. Not exactly genealogy, but its my way of
>> tracking part of my family.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>
>>
>>> I'd bet John is talking about Camp Butner.  That's near his stomping
>>> grounds.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
>>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:44 PM
>>> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>>>
>>>
>>>> John, What base was that?
>>>>
>>>> Down here at the coast, some of my wife's family was displaced when
> they
>>>> built Camp Davis at Holly Ridge.  TRACTOR CONTENT: A history
> instructor
>>>> at Cape Fear Community College has just written a good book about
> the
>>>> history of the base.  His father was Wilbur Tyndall, who owned the
> JD
>>>> museum in Pink Hill.  Small world.
>>>>
>>>> My Granddaddy and great-Granddaddy got jobs as carpenters
> constructing
>>>> the base.  Not much is left today, the base was closed after the
> war.
>>>> Camp Lejune owns most of the land now but the air strip is still
> back
>>>> there in the woods, I am told, and you can still spy a brick chimney
>>>> here and there from the base.
>>>>
>>>> Al
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:14 PM
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>>>
>>>> Come to think of it I believe I have an uncle buried on what used to
> be
>>>> his
>>>> family's farm. His wife however was buried in a church cemetery.
>>>>
>>>> WWII dislodged all of my grandmothers family. Uncle Sam needed the
> land
>>>> for
>>>> a military base/POW camp. Anyhow there were several old cemetery's
>>>> there.
>>>> They didn't move them but didn't do a whole lot to upkeep them
> either.
>>>>
>>>> Some of which are now on property owned by the state.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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