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In my elementary school anyone who said anything racist would get an instant punch in the face. After the first year I enjoyed peace. Being a college  town  almost all of my friends were the children of faculty,  so they were progressive types.


After being chased home from school in the first week, my father told me that if anyone ever chased me home again  I would have to deal with him. Then he gave me self defense lessons for the next ten years.


He had been in WWII,  and was the boxing champ of his base. My mother told me that once a bartender said something derogatory  and my father pulled him across the bar by his tie. I suppose he lost his fear in war.