[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"I know where gray hair comes from, my snotty sons.'

My mom was home from work one day in 1968 when the doorbell rang.

She opened it to find two Air Force officers looking down at some documents.

One looked up and said, "Oh, you're not Mrs. Walker."

Mr. and Mrs Walker were a black couple a couple of doors down the block and they were there to inform her that he had been recently been KIA.

Mom slammed the door and screamed for a while. A neighbor told me a couple of years later that Mrs. Walker started screaming not long after my mom did.

Michael Frazier

[armymarinemom]

That is a lot worse than the occasional driver who uses your driveway to turn around or the Red Cross who called her with an "urgent" message that they needed money.