Quote Originally Posted by detroitsgwenivere View Post
Except for that time that some guy started shooting at someone in front of my house on valentines day. And the shooting at the gas station on mi ave, and that one time...
The only times that I ever heard gunshots when I lived in the city was on V-E Day and V-J Day when all of the neighbors who were hunters were out on the street blazing away up in the air with their shotguns.

I asked my mother what they were doing and she said it meant my father would be coming home [[In an infantry battalion all the way from New Zealand to Tokyo via Guadalcanal, the Munda Trail, Aitape in New Guinea, and the Lingayen Gulf Landing on Luzon).