When I graduated

I was 17yrs didn't turn 18 until August

O I C

oh I see

I was in ROTC

I'm not seeing those classes things are kinda cut off on these records

Some one

must of been in the service because she had a flag it was folded a certain kind of a way. She kept it in this drawer in the front room

Mother always

dressed very nicely with matching purses and shoes

I think the knife incident

is the reason she was diagnosed with mental illness. That was the onset. coulda been the reason why I hated school from that point on

Now as I look back at this

instead of her going to jail and being charged criminally not having proper access to services back then. I don't know what Mother did if anything prior to the knife incident although I heard of another incident which caused her to leave Detroit and come here.

I remember being called

out of class and sitting in the back seat a car by St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church we sat I believe it was me Albert and Yvette we waited in the car while Mother was being arrested

Next memory being

in school at Sheldon someone picking on Albert and Marjorie going up to the school to confront the principal with a knife because he failed to stop her son for being bullied

The death of that man

left Mother with 9 children to raise with no male to help

Next kinda of memory is sad

of the person whom I was told was my dad passed away. I was young before I was in school