This will not be as meaningful to some, perhaps, as it will to others. But it sorta fits in as it concerns a military installation in Massachusetts — at least, it was a mlitary installation at one time known as Fort Devens, just a stone’s throw away from the little town of Ayer, and about 50 miles from Boston. I was stationed there twice — once on my way to Korea in 1950, and again when I returned from Korea in 1951 before going to France.
Time goes by quickly, and it is now 1972, the year that Richard Nixon won in a landslide over George McGovern, carrying every state except — you guessed it — Massachusetts. Not long afterward, Fort Devens was closed by Executive Order of the President and was made a federal penal institution.
Was there any connection? I really have no idea, but some say it was because Massachusetts prevented Nixon from carrying all 50 states.
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