The World had a report

The World had a report on my hometown yesterday. Here’s the teaser for the report: “As America hunkers down for what President Bush says will be a long and global fight against terrorism, local officials all over the United States are looking for ways to defend their citizens. And as Aaron Schacter reports, much of the playbook for homeland defense is being written in a relatively small community in northern Alabama.”

The report mentions this but I’m putting it here for emphasis. Huntsville has the second largest research park in the nation and the fourth largest in the world. It houses Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA fame. I’ve heard it has one of the highest densities of PhDs but I couldn’t find anything to back that up. I could go on and on about it’s scientific research resources but I won’t. I mention these things because I like tweaking Alabama stereotypes. I have no desire to move back there, but it was an interesting place to grow up. The mountains and valleys of the area were my playground growing up. I was sad to see that over the years the old people and the mega churches have clawed tremendous parcels of that beauty to pieces.