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ABC World News with Diane Sawyer
Jim Scuitto spends time in Bokoshe, OK and reports on our fly ash problem.

I applaud ABC News for taking the time to report our story here in Bokoshe. Small rural towns across the nation are considered inconsequential. We have become throwaway towns with throwaway people. The one comment made during the our interviews that was not in the segment was that this is happening to small towns all over America and our story is not unique. We were just blessed they chose us to interview. At 81, my mom insisted I contact ABC. I first wrote ABC over two years ago asking for an investigation. Did they come because of me? Probably not, it takes bigger and more important people to ask, for them to get involved. I am just glad they listened. Those of us in Bokoshe are not stopping. We have a new pit that opened 5 miles west of town. For those that don’t know, my sister died of lung cancer in 2004 and my mom died of cancer New Years day this year. She knew before she died they were coming. She just didn’t get to stay long enough to see it.

Radiation levels rising.

Slow death is in the air.

Every thing’s mutating but nobody seems to care.

Now our children have to live with the changes that we make.

The whole earth has suffered from the chances that we take.

We say that’s the price of progress and we have no other choice.

Can we make an honest effort? Can see beyond our greed?

B.E. Cause

Bokoshe, Oklahoma 74930

flyash@intheairwebreathe.com

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