When I got out of the Navy last year, I decided to call Everett home. The mountains and laid-back attitude of the locals kept me here. I am currently attending Everett Community College, pursuing a degree in photography using my G.I. Bill. However, recently the Navy has decided that not just the sailors on the base should hear morning colors, but everyone in north Everett. It seems some new gung-ho C.O. has decided that volume equals patriotism. This noise reminds me every day that I was on anti-depressants and sleeping pills to deal with the noise that occurs on an aircraft carrier. I did two deployments on the USS Nimitz. The noise level is disturbing and if nationalistic veterans want to hear it every morning, there is YouTube. I am not the only veteran in the area that fees this way.

Andrew Heller

Everett