Editor,

It’s time for someone to speak up for the people who live around Penn Cove.

My grandfather bought more than 200 acres in the 1930s on Madrona Way at the end of the cove because of the beauty, peace and quiet.

If the planes were the same as when we moved here, then we wouldn’t be having this problem.

When our family settled here, there were no obnoxious fireworks or reverberating jet aircraft overhead.

The waters of Penn Cover were not on the flightpath – never have been — until now.

The jets are flying up and down Penn Cove to and from Oak Harbor.

I don’t know why the Town of Coupeville or business owners don’t speak up before it’s too late.

The new Growlers are not just bothering those who live near Outlying Field Coupeville – but the whole Town of Coupeville, both sides of Penn Cove and West Beach and Fort Ebey.

That’s why we’d like to understand what the Navy is doing? Where, when? How many?

If Island County Commissioner Jill Johnson really cared about us and our service men and women, she would know that the Growler’s noise causes panic attacks among many of our returned service personnel.

This is not the sound of freedom.

If the Navy would just compromise, instead of just wanting their way 100 percent of the time. Move the jets somewhere they won’t cause all of us harm. The jets are louder – something must change.

Things are very different now.

Please, for the last time, stop saying that we want to close the base — we do not!

I am not going to move. We were here first.

Ann Miller

Coupeville