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      <title>Dr John Schleier [Signature #539]</title>
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      <title>Mr Frank Frye [Signature #537]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Jul 2015 01:42:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>robert barbour [Signature #536]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[robert barbour<p>blocking navigation between the great lakes and the inland rivers is too damaging and punishing to recreational boating. Find an alternate solution.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr. Richard Koeninger [Signature #535]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:41:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Herbert Tabb<p>The Great Loop is on my Bucket List.  Please do not scratch it off for me.  I would rather do that myself.  And if and when I cruise it, I would like to know that my grandkids could follow in my wake and cruise it too someday.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr George Green [Signature #532]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>I am taking that route in a 43 foot craft this year, and planning on many future transits. thank you.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr. Larry Heimer, Jr. [Signature #530]</title>
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      <title>Ms Ramona Miller [Signature #526]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Arthur Kirtley<p>I enjoy sailing &amp; think it would be a great loose to this country to lose the canals.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Mikel Garman [Signature #512]</title>
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      <title>James Bledsoe [Signature #509]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:14:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Richard Dailly [Signature #508]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Feb 2015 05:10:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Eve Nichelini [Signature #504]</title>
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      <title>Mr. Jerry Vaqn Zandt [Signature #502]</title>
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      <title>Douglas Craig [Signature #501]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Douglas Craig<p>I finally get to think about the lop, and this happens!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr James King [Signature #500]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:26:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Sharon Hogue [Signature #499]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:34:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. James Regan<p>Please save the Great Loop for all to enjoy! I am planning to do this with my wife when I retire from the US Marine Corps. I would love to see so much of this country I have served.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>Please don&#039;t close Lake Michigan to the Chicago river unless a short and affordable overland detour is first provided.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Howard Ayars<p>Think about who you work for and who you represent. Hundreds or better yet thousands of people hope to make this trip as part of a dream that makes this such a vital decision.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Lance Williams<p>Please do not close off boat access from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River without exploring every possible alternative.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Rebecca Williams<p>Please do not close off boat access from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River without exploring every possible alternative.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #488]</title>
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Don&#039;t cut off all the taxpaying American boaters that use the connecting the Great Lakes and the Miss river.<br />
This is an iconic passage that needs to be available to the US citizens.<br />
Thanks for making the right decisions !<br />
John Weinrich- life long boater<br />
resident of Montgomery county, Pa.19090</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Dolores Rose<p>American boating matters. This is a VITAL water route and needs preserved for future generations. Thank you.</p>]]></description>
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