Our new garden up on Fire Mountain, in Oceanside, looked like hell I grew up in Southern California suburbia and hated gardening. It was called yard work, which pretty much explains why any kid would …
CH-53 marine helicopter airlifts a cannon. What we have allowed to happen is an insult to nature.
Posted October 29, 1987
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October 29, 1987