General Discussion

You should be a LOT proud of that.

I was brought up by parents, especially my father, who taught us to always question authority. My mother was a bit more tactful and she'd always say, "Don't be a follower, be a leader" and "If something feels wrong to you, trust yourself. Don't do something just because someone in authority says to do it." Both of my parents were very anti-war. My father was anti-gun also. He remembered his father telling him about how his uncle disobeyed an order to carry a gun and the powers that be put him up againsts a wall and shot him. My paternal grandfather was born ion 1888, so that will give you a time frame of what era this happened in in Europe somewhere. I have never known more details about that but I sure wish I did.