Of interest to no one but me, is the fond memories of growing up in eastern Missouri and the forested hills and Missouri River that was my playground. What is four days of mud and heat like? MR 88 hours on the river. Sort of bad things secreted away in the hills Mission Sunflower Facebook Group Are you brave enough to see how much radioactive waste is killing people in eastern Missouri?
Louis region" Quote from the Secret City Website. It was also years before the United States Government declared it a Superfund site.
I tell the story often. The first time was memorable. It was not the spooky abandoned castle like buildings spray painted from multitudes of other curious teens. No it was the WOLF. Not a coyote as the Missouri Department of Conservation would have you believe -until modern game cameras forced them to admit that young male wolves travel the Missouri River bluffs and wooded bottom lands.
My encounter with a wolf. It was big. I had just pushed my way though the hole in the rusty fence as the wolf was approaching to leave via the same route. We saw each other at the same time. We both froze in surprise. Why I tell the story so often is because of the surprising intelligence in the manner the wolf appraised me. I would say neither one of us were scared. We stood still like that for a long time.
Probably only ten seconds in truth, but it felt far longer. Finally the wolf bolted into the forest. I smiled ear to ear and headed towards the castle. Uranium processing plant.
