[Alouette]

My friends and I got summer jobs at the DIA, building sets and sewing costumes for their Theater program. Then the season got cancelled in the middle due to the riots. I remember taking the Hamilton Street bus to the DIA the week after the riots. It was like going through a war zone. The Michigan National Guard had tanks in the streets.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I was just 6 when we had the riots. I remember being evacuated from our home because they thought that rioters would come to our area in boats.

I remember driving down I-94 to my grandparents in Ann Arbor and seeing all the tanks and National Guard rolling up the highway. The sky was full of smoke.

It deeply effected me for years.

[tiamat]

I never saw the tanks, but I know people who did....

Tia