[Magdalen] Highlander Centerre Fire

[ME Michaud]

Small correction. It was 1936.
The Depression was still on.

During the next four years, as the war ramped up, Boston filled with
transient servicemen, all shipping out somewhere. Men who'd never seen a
city, some

On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend sent a link this morning to an article that posited the idea that
> people (men, actually) buy firearms because they believe they and their
> families will be attacked in their homes by some sort of bogeyman (zombie
> undead, Muslim, African-American, whatever). The author was acting like
> this was a revelation, but it's is such an American fear.
>
> I am remembering that when my mother went to college in Boston (in 1940)
> her father thought it prudent to give her a cute little pistol.
>
> I am remembering that my grandmother, whose father was born in 1842, had
> no shame in claiming she was deathly afraid of "wild Indians."
>
> The current administration alternately pricks and massages these fears.
> And I think the NRA has exploited them for decades.
> I pray it will end with the next generation.
> -M
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would say racism and Islamophobia.
>>
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