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@hakan_geijer

When the riots began in Detroit in '67, I watched soldiers in camo wave to me as they passed over us in Huey helicopters.

All the way from Viet Nam! I thought.

Then I saw the tanks rolling through Detroit.

"How did they get tanks here so fast?" I asked my dad.

"Well, there's a tank arsenal just up the road, a few minutes away."

When newspapers described the attack on MOVE in Philly, years later, as the "first time" the military attacked civilians, I chuckled bitterly at the naivity of mainstream media.