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Swords to Plowshares--sort of

Fort Ord on the other side of Monterey Bay used to be an army base. I went to a protest there as soldiers left for El Salvador. Or Nicaragua. Or somewhere we didn't belong.

Anyway,the army base was closed in 1990 and its facilities are being "repurposed." A portion of it is now a California State University, another is a UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserve, and another, a "regional development initiative" called UCSC MBEST.

And someone has turned the old military stockade into a place you can shoot your friends: Jailhouse Paintball

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Posted by: Rosewood on Mar 08, 03 | 9:49 pm | Profile

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