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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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