Straight Out of Hell 1 Wrong Place, Wrong Time

GETTING SHOT!!! TODAY, OUR YOUNG KIDS THINK SHOOTING SOMEONE OR GETTING SHOT GIVES THEM CREDIBILITITY OR SOME TYPE OF BADGE OF HONOR. KIDS NEED TO BE THEMSELVES, INSTEAD OF BEING WHAT THE STREETS THINK THEY SHOULD BE! KILLING OR INFLICTING SERIOUS BODILY HARM ON SOMEONE HAS SET THE BLACK RACE BACK 400 YEARS! WHEN I WAS SHOT IN A NIGHT CLUB, I WAS MORE EMBARRASSED THAN ANYTHING; I DIDN'T NEED A BADGE OF HONOR, BECAUSE I WAS SECURE WITH WHO I WAS. I REFUSED TO LET THE STREETS DICTATE MY CHARACTER...MY CHARACTER DICTATED THE WAY THE STREETS SHOULD BE! I GREW UP IN THE "HOOD," BUT I DID NOT HAVE THAT "HOOD" MENTALITY. -LT. GARRY L. JONES