Comments on: Go to sleep, they’re just military fighter jets overhead . . . http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/05/21/go-to-sleep-theyre-just-military-fighter-jets-overhead/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:45:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MB http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/05/21/go-to-sleep-theyre-just-military-fighter-jets-overhead/#comment-47552 MB Thu, 22 May 2008 02:47:36 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/?p=846#comment-47552 To be clear, I find the sound of overhead military jets fundamentally soothing. I was born in the sonic shadow of the F-15s of the Tactical Air Command at Luke Air Force Base, and suspect that I'll always find the sound of afterburners a comforting thing. But that doesn't stop me from feeling the incongruity of low-level passes by fighter jets over the nation's capitol. To be clear, I find the sound of overhead military jets fundamentally soothing. I was born in the sonic shadow of the F-15s of the Tactical Air Command at Luke Air Force Base, and suspect that I’ll always find the sound of afterburners a comforting thing.

But that doesn’t stop me from feeling the incongruity of low-level passes by fighter jets over the nation’s capitol.

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