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Now that's what you call an education.I was 12 and the only white kid living across the street from Bankhead Court apartments near Jackson Parkway
Hollywood rd, Bolton Rd, Jackson Pkwy, Bankhead Hwy, Northwest Dr. Rode my bike everywhere back then. Seems like race relations were better somewhat. Raised by grandparents and their attitude were we are not moving. We did move to Mableton by the time I turned 15Now that's what you call an education.
Did two years at Benedictine in Savannah.
That was 50+ years ago, probably still owe them some hours walking off demerits.
Taught me I was not cut out for the military.
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I went to GMC Prep for high school (early 90’s). Not a boarding student, lived in Milledgeville. Turns out either I have a problem with authority or there is noting worse than a retired SSG (looking at you, Calvin Hill) trying to relive his DI bull**** ways on high school students. (maybe both, actually). I was in the top 5 all time for bullring hours walked. Also cadet of the quarter one time.
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I turned 13 in November of '72. Didn't go to military school, but did enlist in '81.
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Rich folk
50 yrs ago I think I mite be been just starting to grow good.. in momma’s belly.. and Tazz your a true Tasmanian devil.. you was a hellun.. man the crap we could’ve done if we we’re running buddies
Hollywood rd, Bolton Rd, Jackson Pkwy, Bankhead Hwy, Northwest Dr. Rode my bike everywhere back then. Seems like race relations were better somewhat. Raised by grandparents and their attitude were we are not moving. We did move to Mableton by the time I turned 15
We didn’t win many football games but we did beat Riverside all the time.Y’all probably whooped us in football, I don’t think our team won a single game the two years I went there. Is that the school that used to be Woodward Academy? We had a West Point grad running the military classes with a Sgt and a Master Sgt under him, he was a Lt Col but I can’t remember his name. Man, there never anything out of regs on that dude, moved like some kinda robot warrior. lol! Sgt McVey hadn’t been long out of Vietnam after doing 3 or 4 tours, that’s the guy nobody wanted to piss off, he’d make you do PT till ya puked. SOB dated my Mom a couple of times, military classes got a little awkward. lol! Our punishment for too many demerits was also called the bullring, I wonder how many other schools use that term? I thought it was a term made up at our school. lol! Oh yeah, you even looked like a troublemaker. Lol!
I was very familiar with Cascade Heights. Grandad was born and raised in a little town next to Pulaski Tenn. if you know a little civil war history, birthplace of General Forest and a certain organization. I knew and study history at a young age and always thought it odd that we didn’t move out sooner. I can say that I made some close friends when I lived there and never really had any trouble. I think it really helped me a lot in my law enforcement career learning how to talk to people, that and walking into a pod with 30 inmates all charged with murder and being able to get your point across.Dude, we would’ve got in so much crap my Dad would’ve probably locked us up. You know what they say about cops kids and preachers kids right? It’s mostly true, my best friend right before I got sent off at 12 years old was a preachers kid so we were always in more trouble than most kids being I was a cops kid. lol!
I lived in a lot of places around I-285 and inside the perimeter growing up but not that area, I lived in Cascade Heights at one time and a few other sketchy places. I lived in Riverdale before moving to Newnan in ‘78, it was still a decent town back then.