I would give the "neighbors" the same statement that I used to give the Neighbors of NAS Key West. This air station, and in this case Ole Ironsides, was here LONG before you moved in. In addition, we made no attempt to hide or silence our activities before you purchased your home. And....In the words of our base commander...what you are hearing is "The Sound of Freedom".

Maybe the next boom/last thing those elitist Bostonians will hear is the LNG tankers blowing up after their local homegrown Roxbury Muzziesget to drive all the US Military from MA. buh bye

These "people" can go fornicate with themselves.

Let's see, now...who was there first, again?

I'm all for it but then again I don't have to listen to it every morning and night, either. It's not like an air force base where the jets have to conduct practice flights every day to stay ready. I could see just firing the cannon on the 4th of July.

Get the coordinates of the whiners, and send the cannon balls instead.

If they didn't want to hear them, they shouldn't have moved nearby.
Same old story like people moving "out" to the rural developments, then trying to pass laws limiting farm animals.

"Nuts" - Gen. Anthony McAuliffe.

Typical Mass. Kennedy / Kerry Neo-Marxists.

It's the same as people who build the million dollar mansions on a golf course and then scream about the noise from the mowers and golf balls in their yards. A pox on all of them.

Can't you hear? That's the sound of Freedom!

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We have a beauty of an airport in Orlando and within the last 12 years housing developments sprung up around it. One very posh with lots of pro athletes: convenient to airport, great golf and no state income taxes. Airport needs to expand and who do you think opposes it? Yup. You're right.

People are funny animals!

Mister

Twice each day they are reminded of freedom unlike in Edinburgh where the folks are reminded it's one o'clock!

Yes, perhaps Old Ironsides should use more than blanks -- and see how precisely the cannons could be aimed at this 'condo-development'. Tell them to thinken their glass -- or hoist their glasses!

I would like to remind those cheese-eating, wine-sipping morons that the USS Constitution is the nation's oldest commissioned warship and as such deserves a little more respect from her newer neighbors than is given at this time. I would also like to invite those complainers to politely pound sand.

If this works, I am going to go build some posh condos at the end of a runway, then once I have shut down the airport, I should be able to sell them at many times the price.

So, move.

Tell it to the Marines!

I try very hard to refrain from especially harsh profanity, but sometimes it is all that will suffice.

My inner sailor is coming out on this one and I am reading a Bio on Samuel Adams right now ta boot. I think I know what he would tell these Johnny-come-lately, yuppie-esque scum.

ST_U!

I live next to the 117th Fighter Wing and every day F-15’s, C-130’s, and even the occasional chopper boom or buzz over my house. I always yell “huzzah! Go get em boys!” and tell the kids it is the sound of freedom.

In Boston…of ALL places. Boston!

How far we have fallen. Sam would have organized a mob to burn these people in effigy. He would be writing fifteen letters to the editor a day under fifteen different pen names brutally eviscerating these soulless sphincters.

Now, being the former lifer that I was, if I were a young sailor and a member of USS Constitution's crew, I'd take this as a personal challenge. I'd call the good folks down in Dahlgren and find out just how large a charge these cannon can handle.

STGCS(SW), USN (Ret.)

Those cannons are not facing the right way!

How about a 21 cannon salute each morning in honor of all the servicemen who sacrificed so that these whiners could complain the way that they do?
And, like #19 said, "find out just how large a charge these cannon can handle" (that's priceless - thanks for my morning laugh).

No idea how long the upscale condo has been there but the cannons have been reporting twice a day for 40 years. All they need to do is give the cannons some *balls* and aim them in the proper direction. Problem solved.

There have been condos within 400 yards of Constitution for 20 years or more. I was a volunteer in the Charlestown Navy Yard from 1991 to 1997 and never heard of any complaints about the noise from the salutes. USS Constitution and the other ship anchored there, USS Cassin Young, are sacred.

Scroom!

Unless the complainants are 211 years old, or older, this shouldn't have been a surprise. If it was a surprise, then you are too stupid to purchase a house. You people live in a city. Cities are noisy. I live in MA on the South Shore, and we had a church neighbor complain about the noise level of 20 kids age 8-11 and a coaches whistle to the point of calling the police! They claimed it was disrupting their country living atmosphere. Some people truly like to complain.

In southern CA, there is a large McDonnell-Douglas 'factory'. Decades ago workers built/bought homes in the area, one of my friends remembered his Dad riding a bicycle to work, in 1950's and 1960's.

Years later, those workers grew old, retired or died and the houses sold. The new buyers, in mid-90's tried to sue to close the plant down...the airplanes were ''too noisy'' when they took off ''all'' day long, and disturbed their babies' sleep. Like they weren't taking off when they went to view and buy their house.

The jets taking off and landing at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West are enought to rattle any one's teeth. Those who have boats in the slips there get daily reminders that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I love the sound of those jets in the morning. It sounds like liberty.