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‘Nightmare on De la Vina Street’

Two veterans face a new foe: a looming dense-housing project next door.

‘Nightmare on De la Vina Street’
<b>AUD ATTACK:</b> Three houses stand where a single one-story stood next door to Sandra Force’s home.

NEW FOE: Sandra Force and her husband, George Ducott, are 100 percent disabled military vets, fighting a losing battle against a triple-threat monster that looms over their house.

While in the Vietnamese demilitarized zone back in the 1950s, George survived North Vietnamese artillery attacks, a spraying with herbicides, and being sent to command a fire base that had been overrun and everyone killed. But George and Sandra have been helpless to defeat the onslaught of a city zoning ordinance that seems to many to be veering out of control.

Barney Brantingham

“Our reward for our service is the new view from our windows,” Sandra said.