I saw a sixth grader...
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"I saw a sixth grader, on his way up the alley to school, throw a firecracker over the fence of our yard and into the chicken coop. I was as angry as I have ever been in my whole life. The chase was on! Down the alley, a hesitating wonder as to how he had vanished into thin air, spotting him darting from under a bush like a rabbit, over a five-and-a-half foot wall, then over a six-and-a-half foot back wall, I took the gate, across the church parking lot, and finally trapped him under the camper parked in a neighbor's yard. Winded and outraged, I yelled that I wanted to "kill" him, but instead took him to the school principal to do the disciplining. I didn't like the feeling that raged in me. I was even frightened by it. I certainly experienced the truth of the word of Eleanor of Aquitaine (in James Goldsmith's The Lion in Winter1) "We are the origin of war."2
1. Goldman, James, The Lion in Winter, (New York, Random House, 1965)
2. Bond, Alan B. The Sevenfold Path to Peace, (Lima, Ohio CSS Publishing Co., 1986).
-- Bond
1. Goldman, James, The Lion in Winter, (New York, Random House, 1965)
2. Bond, Alan B. The Sevenfold Path to Peace, (Lima, Ohio CSS Publishing Co., 1986).
-- Bond
