Editor,

This is in response to several letters, and a lot of “sky is falling information.”

After reading these letters, I went to the link provided, truthout.org, and was not very impressed.

In my humble opinion, it is yellow journalism at its best.

The Truthout article is several pages long, making some interesting claims, theories and hypotheses.

If all are to be believed, we should be up to our knees in dead birds and the rest flying around aimlessly, cell phones and their transmission towers should be banned, and all communication should be done with two cans and a string.

None of which is going to happen.

There are also statements of how much flying and how often this may occur.

Just because an estimate of how many flights, days and training hours is allocated does not mean they will be there training everyday.

Claims are made that flight levels will be at higher altitudes, which is correct, and, yes, mountains do rise, and unless the access road goes to the top of the Olympics, they will be within authorized flight space as they are now.

I would also like to see some pictures of the person’s house who claimed the Navy was flying low-level supersonic flights and blew out their windows.

As far as my noise statements, I too live under the flight path and have for more 40 years.

When it’s “our turn” to be blessed with the sound of freedom, you live with it. No one forced you to buy in the flight path.

I appreciate the fact that the commanding officer of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station is trying to appease those who are skeptical of the Navy and their intentions, but no matter how much information they publish, nor how open they are with flight schedules, there will be those who want the base closed and its financial security for the thousands who work there and those that benefit from the base gone.

Mike Van Voorst

Oak Harbor