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and this poison has affected (and still practically everywhere I went how sick obvious candidate is chemtrails. Ac-
continues to do so) the veterans who most of our trees and shrubs appeared, cording to Dr. Russell Blaylock, these
served in that “conflict” many years especially oaks (our most common chemtrails contain nano-sized alumi-
ago. I saw many of these veterans dur- tree), but other hardwoods too as well as num that can travel through the nasal
ing my thirty-two years as a volunteer at softwoods—natives and ornamentals, passages into the brain. As a botanist
our local VA hospital, and even though large and small, young and old. and horticulturist, I know that high
they are receiving medical care and I have a college degree in botany levels of aluminum are toxic to plants
monthly taxpayer dollars to compensate and horticulture and know how healthy as well as humans.
for their illnesses, their lives, and those and unhealthy plants look, and am I also called an Extension Service
of their supportive families, have not a “tree hugger” to boot who keeps a (ES) agent; her explanation was that
and will never be the same. watch on the environment around me. many pests and diseases have appeared
Note: Many of these affected Viet Last summer the oak leaves appeared as a much delayed reaction to the 2016
Nam veterans died years prior to the shriveled although they were still green; drought. The worst was Sudden Oak
VA administration’s acknowledgment and whereas these majestic tree cano- Death because it attacks many different
of the connection! Their families never pies would normally form a solid cover species and spreads rapidly.
received a penny for their losses! that time of year, they were actually Then one morning, I heard on the
My husband was not in the military thin and sparse and you could easily BBC a report that a fungal tree disease
and there was no cancer in his family. see much of the sky through them. is an international crisis, and that it af-
But. . . I have several neighbors who Eventually these shriveled leaves began fects more than two thousand different
hire lawn care companies every spring, to drop and dead branches protruded species!
in spite of the numerous cancers and from the tops of many trees. Often as This brings me back to chemtrails.
deaths in our small neighborhood, the top died, the lower trunk would Even if you discount theories of deliber-
including my now-deceased husband! sprout with the new foliage causing the ate spraying, we know that aluminum
I am an organic Master Gardener and periphery, and therefore the landscape, oxide is added to jet fuel, so aluminum
he was my helper. And my home sits in to look green and healthy to the average (and other toxins) from thousands of
the middle of this cancer cluster! Are person; although the shriveling seemed planes is raining down on our forests
my days numbered, no matter what I do to continue down the trunk eventually every day. The trees are telling us that
to stay healthy? catching up with the new sprouts too, it’s time to wake up!
Can your organization help to completely defoliating some throughout Susan Ledbetter
spread the word? I truly believe and the season. The pine trees also have Waverly, Alabama
hope that you can! yellowing needles and large masses of
Susan Pennington fungus growing on their trunks. An
Martinsville, Indiana employee of the power company stated
that this has been the worst year he’d
An article on toxic lawn chemicals is ever known for dead trees on the lines.
planned for a future issue. Although we did have a rather
severe drought in 2016, we also had a
DYING TREES rather rainy year in 2017, and one would
What is happening to our trees have thought that our trees and shrubs Gifts and bequests to the
and shrubs? Last summer as I drove would be recovering from that; but as Weston A. Price Foundation
around in about a hundred-mile radius the summer progressed, so did the sick will help ensure
of where I live in central Alabama and look in our trees and shrubs. the gift of good health
into Georgia, I couldn’t help but notice So what is going on here? One to future generations.

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