Damage From Demolition of Bunkers

* Excuse me? I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw “Modern Hieroglyphics” (Nov. 8).

The 50-year-old bunkers were declared by the archeologist paid for by Koll Co. as “of no historical importance” and the company was granted a permit to demolish the bunkers.

Now the vice president of the Koll Real Estate Group is in a hard hat and in the company of the paid archeologist Nancy Whitney-Desautels drooling over the graffiti in the bunkers.

The archeologist has taken pictures of the graffiti and she is quoted as saying the paintings in the bunkers are “very similar to the pyramids or American Indian cave paintings.”

She has documented the wall paintings. Eventually she plans to publish her findings and have a “traveling bunker show.”

My question is: If they are that important, why did she and the Koll Co. demolish the small bunker and in April plan on completing the demolishing of the big bunker?

EILEEN MURPHY

Huntington Beach

* “Modern Hieroglyphics” commends photographer David Hocking (rightly so) but unfortunately what was not told by Koll Co. and their archeologist is that the tremendous amount of earth moved, thousands of cubic yards, is destroying a 12,000-year-old Native American artifact and burial site that has been recommended for the National Registry.

In addition, Koll violated several wetland areas in not doing their grading correctly.

I commend Mr. Hocking for trying to record our recent graffiti history, but I am appalled by the alliance of supposed scientists and developers who cover up the real damage they are doing with little vignettes designed to mislead readers into thinking they are a public-spirited and magnanimous corporation.

BILL HALPIN

Huntington Beach