Re: the April 7 letter “We’re still talking about D-M noise”
Suppose you bought a rural lot with a neighbor who had six chickens. Over the next 70 years, his lot morphed into a pig farm. If you complained about the odor, Friday’s letter writer, who defended “the sound of freedom,” would say it was your fault because you shouldn’t have bought next door to a farm.
In 1941, and there were no jets at Davis-Monthan. Then in the 1950s the B-47s took off over the University of Arizona, causing lecturers to pause because of the noise. And now the awful roar of the F-16s on their landing approach reflects off the east face of the Tucson Mountains, where I live.
If the F-35s come to D-M, most Tucsonans will be annoyed by their noise. Is that their fault, since they bought their properties since 1941? I predict real estate values will fall in affected areas, even if the sound level is less than the writer’s standard of Chicago streets.
Roger E. Carpenter
West side
