blacksambellamy
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With the use of my metal detector i was able to locate the former Camp Wellfleet within National Park Property. I went on to interview some of the old timers who were stationed there. It was from these interviews that i learned of the RCAT drones that were flown up and down the beach for target practice and with help from these men i was able to recover a 60 year old drone from the woods.
I then opened up a website called www.CampWellfleet.com displaying my research and dedicating the site to all who served there. I contacted the National Seashore VIA email and asked if there was a way to set up a small museum with the plane and other Camp Wellfleet artifacts. Their response was there was no funding. I also spoke with the curator of the National Seashore museum Hope Morrill and she expressed great interest with my research. She sent me a picture of the old camp and asked me if i could donate some of the photographs i obtained. I never did speak to her again because she stopped writing.
I traveled back to Cape Cod the other day and went metal detecting at Marconi to try and find more CW history. After 3 hours on the beach i was cold and wet and decided to go home. As i walked to my car two park rangers jumped out of the bushes and read me my rights. They confiscated my detector and issued me a summons for use of a metal detector on Government property and i now have to appear in federal court. They knew everything about me and my CW research because i sent them my website. Never oncedid they tell me i was doing something wrong. I was never hiding what i was doing and i even emailed them advising them of my finds so we could place them in their museum. What i find disturbing is the way they handled this. They had all my information and could have contacted me at any time if i was doing something wrong.
Im a police officer full time and i can tell you from experience this was handled poorly. I would have thought they would embraced my research. In the end the rangers said this will be the barter system "you give us our plane back and we will see about getting detector back to you. So what this comes down to is its all about the plane i found and they want it back. Im so confused because i tried to give it to them and now they do this to me.
can somebody give me advice? Im in the law field and this seems like a leaky bag of crap on their part. Im an honest guy who was doing the right thing,
I then opened up a website called www.CampWellfleet.com displaying my research and dedicating the site to all who served there. I contacted the National Seashore VIA email and asked if there was a way to set up a small museum with the plane and other Camp Wellfleet artifacts. Their response was there was no funding. I also spoke with the curator of the National Seashore museum Hope Morrill and she expressed great interest with my research. She sent me a picture of the old camp and asked me if i could donate some of the photographs i obtained. I never did speak to her again because she stopped writing.
I traveled back to Cape Cod the other day and went metal detecting at Marconi to try and find more CW history. After 3 hours on the beach i was cold and wet and decided to go home. As i walked to my car two park rangers jumped out of the bushes and read me my rights. They confiscated my detector and issued me a summons for use of a metal detector on Government property and i now have to appear in federal court. They knew everything about me and my CW research because i sent them my website. Never oncedid they tell me i was doing something wrong. I was never hiding what i was doing and i even emailed them advising them of my finds so we could place them in their museum. What i find disturbing is the way they handled this. They had all my information and could have contacted me at any time if i was doing something wrong.
Im a police officer full time and i can tell you from experience this was handled poorly. I would have thought they would embraced my research. In the end the rangers said this will be the barter system "you give us our plane back and we will see about getting detector back to you. So what this comes down to is its all about the plane i found and they want it back. Im so confused because i tried to give it to them and now they do this to me.
can somebody give me advice? Im in the law field and this seems like a leaky bag of crap on their part. Im an honest guy who was doing the right thing,