Anybody remember the Hough Riots?
National Guard called in for that one.
At that time, we lived in the thick of it all.
I could look out the window and could see a jeep full of soldiers with weapons just feet from the house.
On top of the bus stop, were two more soldiers with what looked to my child eyes,a weapon similar to a machine gun.
God,how I wanted out of that neighborhood.
I do. I was in Navy Boot Camp up at Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
I remember picking up a newspaper, and there on the front page was my brother-in-law-to-be in his National Guard jeep, down in the ghetto.
That was the first I heard of the riots.