THEM

Another of our travel interests is to visit places where movies were filmed or supposed to have taken place. A couple of years ago we were at a filming location of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and the town near the end of The Outlaw Josie Wales. A couple of days ago we watched a relatively small ant dragging a wasp-like insect that was at least 20 times his size. Then things came together. We were not far from the Trinity site, first atomic bomb test. Visitation only is allow two days in the year so I cannot supply a personal photo.

Anyway, the 1954 movie THEM  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) is premised that the radiation from an atomic explosion caused ants to grow to a rather large size. It sticks with me as it is the only movie I have left before the end. OK, I was about seven years old. So here I sit in the desert listening for the "twee-twee-twee-twee" sound the ants made in the movie knowing James Arness and James Whitmore are not around to take charge. "Make me a sergeant in charge of the booze." You have to see the movie to understand that line.

looking for volunteers to go down in the hill with gas grenades