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- I grew up in 
Birmingham, Alabama.

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Some very, very good friends 
of mine were killed by bombs,

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bombs that were 
planted by racists.

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I remember it from the 
time I was very small.

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I remember the sounds of bombs 
exploding across the street,

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our house shaking.

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- The bombers 
would come up here,

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up the hill in a 
decommissioned police car.

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Many times, the police 
were clansmen as well

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and they would lay their robes 
on the back shelf of the car

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just for intimidation purposes.

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It was commonplace 
to live in terror.

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I don't know how I could 
better explain that.

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Gunpowder and concrete dust 
has a distinctive odor.

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When I talk about it with 
my friends from Vietnam,

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they say, this sounds like war.

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That's the way war smelled.

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[calm music]