The last time I saw "help wanted" signs on almost every business in Cheboygan was Saturday, August 15, 2020. Actually, most of them didn't say "help wanted", they said "hiring" or "now hiring". Little Caesar's Pizza was even offering a "signing bonus", I seem to remember that it was for $300. I also recently saw an ad in the paper for nurses in Petoskey that was also offering a signing bonus, I believe that one was for $3,000.
I think I got the idea about shooting looters from an old movie I saw on TV when I was so young that I didn't know what they were talking about until my father explained it to me. There was some kind of natural disaster, it might have been the San Francisco Earth Quake, the first one back in 18 something, or maybe it was about the Civil War. Part of the declaration of martial law they announced was "Looters will be shot on sight". It has a nice ring to it but, the more I think about it, maybe it's not applicable to the current situation in Chicago.
I was in Cheboygan when the Detroit Riot of 1967 broke out. I didn't have a TV in those days, but there was a lot of talk about it on the street, and I knew some of the National Guardsmen who were sent there. They told me that the death toll was probably higher than the official reports said. They were frequently shot at, and they returned fire until their attackers' guns went silent. Then they moved on to the next incident without even checking to see if they had killed anybody. Ironically, these guys had joined the Guard originally to avoid combat in Vietnam, while I had joined the Army with the hope of going to Vietnam and saw no combat at all in Berlin. There is an old saying, "God protects the fools and the drunks." If that's true, I must have been doubly protected in those days.
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