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VETERANS . (Continuedirom page 1) Rahn agreed with Freund's feelings. "Now it's on Mondav to make a longer vacation,' iiahn said. "And it kind of loses what the holiday is all about." Asked to share their first encounter with death in the war they fought in, many of the veterans who saw action said they could not or would not talk about it. Others, like 39-year-old Mike Niska, a McHenry resident and a Vietnam veteran who went overseas when he was 20, tried to communicate the horror of wartime bloodshed. "It was hard to accept," Niska said. "I just wanted to make it home. It was them or me. "It was on Friday 13,1977. We were near Chulai and it was about two in the morning. There was a six hour firefight with the VC (Viet Cong). We had a body count of 48, and I have pictures of that." Freund also shared his first experience of seeing a fellow servicemen die in action. "The day after we got there...I just always remember there was a guy who you couldn't tell anything," Freund said. "He always knew what was best. The first day there he was blown away." As the veterans drank and enjoyed the brotherhood that only war veterans can ex­ perience on this holiday, there was a feeling of patriotic pride in the Legion Post 491 building. But also present was a sen­ timent of hope that future nerations will not have to go rough what they already had. "The young people of our nation...some day they're going to be taking over for us," said WWII veteran Walter Kuck. "And God willing,there won't be anymore wars or veterans." GRAVEL PIT • (Continued from page 1) Likewise, the Barton- Aschman study said, "While slight increases for close-in receptors may occur, noise levels will be below the ap­ plicable standards of. the USEPA and IEPA and, therefore, will not interfere with normal activities of the adjacent land uses. Noise levels from Jhe gravel pit at the school will be below the levels currently generated by traffic on Route 120." Miller noted that the gravel pit has been in operation in McHenry since 1941, while the school was erected about 18 years ago and the subdivision was built in 1978. "The school district (Dist. 15) has never complained," Miller said. "We requested a list from the EPA of all complaints received in the last 10 years. There were no complaints prior to June, July or August of 1984- just about the time it hit the newspaper." Miller also said much was made in letters to the editor of the condition of the school's fence; that there were holes through which a child could crawl. He acceded that the "bad press" the company received was through letters to the editor. "There was one hole in the fence," Miller said. "But, it was put there by the school so that they could retrieve balls." At the present time, the edge of the pit is 500 to 600 feet from the fence. The planned ex­ cavation of the pit calls for the operation to cease about 25 feet from the fence. The company will then build a berm and plant wild rose bushes to discourage wayfaring youngsters. "We offered to allow more room on the east and west sides of the school if they would give us some of the property to the south," Miller said. The school property is approximately 1,500 feet deep from the northern boundary on Route 120. "Gravel is only where you find it and we only have about five or six years reserve on the existing property," Miller said. "That's why we're going for it. We don't want to produce more, we just want to extend the life of the pit." At current sales rates, Miller estimated the proposed ex­ tension of thejait would allow 15 to 20 yearsfife. The new operation, if approved by county, would only be allowed during daytime hours: 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. during the summer and 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the winter. Miller described the operation as it would affect the proposed extension. A single front-end loader would take gravel, bucket-by-bucket, to a nearby hopper and dump it. By means of the conveyor belt, the gravel would be transported back to the existing property where the crushing, grading and washing operations take place. "All the grading, crushing and washing equipment is going to remain on the same (existing) property," Miller said. The conveyor system would be extended to only that part of the pit being "worked.",Miller also commented that the excavation would be phased with only a small portion of the new property being used at any given "Last year, we employed 334 people. Our payroll was $5.4 million," Miller said. If the extension is not allowed, Miller said the company would have to close the doors oh the west pit when the gravel is played out. "A lot of people will be out of work, to answer your question," Miller said. "You need gravel to make ready-mix. To start a new pit i? virtually impossible." 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