Mount Jumullong Manglo may be paved.

I was flabbergasted when I read the PDN article about the paving of Mount Jumullong Manglo. Mount Jumullong Manglo is the southern hill where once a year on Good Friday, hundreds of Catholic faithfuls flock together to make the arduous trek to the top. It is an Easter vigil that has been going on for some time now, longer than I have been alive. My first thoughts before reading the article was, okay, which Gov-Guam head wants a school named after them now. Now every John, Bill, and Joe Cruz will be able to get up to the top, and with the way things are going at the landfill, it will become another illegal dump site. Then I read that it wasn't proposed by anyone in Gov-Guam, it was proposed by the Department of  Defense. Now I support our troops wholeheartedly, and I am not a military basher, but I think the Federal decision makers are not at all concerned for the people of Guam, but for their own wants. A long time ago, my mom explained to me the difference between needs versus wants, and in my opinion, this decision is a want. There's plenty room elsewhere to pave a road for training, or not pave a road for training, as the spokesperson eluded too. The road, however will be under military control. If you look at all the places on Guam that the military has for it's use, many of the areas under their control are prime locations. Naval hospital and its housing have a great ocean view as well as NCS, and Nimitz Hill Flag Circle. I could go on and on but that would be bashing. The Agat-Umatac road is a beautiful drive. The ocean vista on one side, beautiful, green rolling hills on the other, which I enjoyed recently on my way to a birthday party in Merizo. Now that the military is going to use it for training, say goodbye to the beautiful, green rolling hills, and say hello to Humvee tracks, and barren areas on the not so beautiful any more rolling hills. Cetti and Sella bay are one of the island’s most pristine areas. One just has to be there to feel the awe inspiring secluded scenery of the bays. You might also imagine how the islands ancestors lived, for there are many artifacts that proved they enjoyed life there. The Spanish conquerors inhabited that area also, for it was a perfect place to moor their ships. Just imagine all the beauty, and history being washed away because the barren rolling hillside run-off, because there is nothing there to hold it in place. 

Well after the 8000 Marines, their families, logistic support personnel, aircraft carriers, and the such invade, liberate, relocate to Guam they are going to need a place to train. Hopefully after they occupy our island, the reservation the Federal government gives us, has an ocean view. 

We still won't be able to vote for president, and they won't ship to Guam.

Concrete cross taken atop MT. Jumullong Manglo