"This is Friday the 13th. Anything could have happened."

CLYDE KIGHTLY,

Clearfield, retired Navy machinist and Hill employee

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"If they closed the base, we'd all be out of work."

LEOVA BARNETT,

waitress at Star Cafe in Davis County

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"Now I don't have to worry about where we'll move or whether I have to look for a new job."

GEORGE LAFIGERA,

An aerospace engineer at Hill AFB

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"This isn't over yet."

JERRY STEVENSON,

Layton mayor, speaking from Washington, D.C.

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''Our folks will be very pleased. We've gone through one BRAC [realignment] and it's a relief to know we won't have to go through another one.''

MALCOLM WALDEN,

Base Closure and Realignment coordinator at the Tooele Army Depot

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''As long as I've got my job - that's what it's all about," What we heard this morning, for Utah, it couldn't be any better.''

GUY KOFORD,

Dugway worker

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''Our boys are over in Iraq and we're closing the depots that supply them? This country needs Hill Air Force Base and Tooele Army Depot.''

PAULA PERKINS,

Tooele resident

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''We thought it was going to be the end of the world when they did the big closure in '93. You never want to see that.''

FRANK LIDDIARD,

Tooele businessman

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"I've had 10 calls this morning wondering if I've heard anything. They said if they closed the base, we might as well stick a fork in them because they're done."

GARY ABER,

A network analyst at Hill

''I was up early and had the TV on. My people were calling me. It's a wonderful thing. I'm elated.''

CLINT LEATHAM,

Tooele Army Depot worker

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