My sentiments exactly, Paul. Well said!
-----Thanks!----- Cole Kingsbury ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grande Communications" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:05:20 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:46288] The "Leaning Tower Of Texas" Attached is a recent article from my home town newspaper, The The Midland Reporter-Telegram, Midland, Texas, concerning the demolition of a tower on South Padre Island, Texas. This was not urban renewal. This was the razing of a new building whose construction had been badly designed. Here was a grand project kayoed by poor planning. This tower's fate reminds me of the first attempt at U.S. metrication in the 1970s. Watered down and lacking in leadership, it was born to fail. We can't let it happen again. Let's build our tower well the next time, settling for nothing less than a sound, coordinated, national metrication plan for the Nation. Our metric tower must be built to stand. Paul Trusten
