Temporary-Light9189

Temporary-Light9189 t1_je1xp1a wrote

My family has been in Maryland since the early 1600’s. The civil war divided my family where most of the men were southern sympathizers and fled to the army of N. Virginia, some doing her in the rare MD battalions, others in my family mostly the women and their youngest children fled north to Jersey or New York because they were northern sympathizers. And the weirdest thing of all, not a single person in my family owned land or slaves, they were just drug into the “states rights” argument and those who saw themselves as southern fought for the south, those who saw themselves as northern, went north. I cannot forgive my grandfather for hocking my greatx3 grandfathers union uniform, rifle, gear and all that. I would have cherished that.

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Temporary-Light9189 t1_j93gcun wrote

Oh yea for sure man, at the end of the day the people getting hurt are the ones that are doing something to earn it. Although I do realize that there are innocents that get hurt, every time I see that corner where that poor young woman was shot in crossfire with her kids in the car I take a moment of silence in respect.

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Temporary-Light9189 t1_j91u9ec wrote

Oh yea no I definitely feel you bro, you definitely need to know those guys or get to know them to hang there, I live right over the line on 40 so I’m not local (also white so I stick out like a sore thumb lol) so whenever I go down there I have to hold myself to a certain level of respect and also at this point I know most of those guys by name, as long as I’m minding my own business and bringing money into their neighborhood and I’m respectful, no one bothers me.

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