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[Music] imagine being 9 years old and learning that someone wanted to kill you your dad your brothers and your
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mom that's what I found out when I was 9 years [Music] old it All Began on a perfect summer day
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it was the end of summer August it was hot sunny not a cloud in the sky and we spent all day at the
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beach and everything was ideal until that night when everything changed my uncle was a police officer
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and he worked the midnight shift my dad left for work just like normal he hadn't gone probably half a
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mile from our house when a car pulled up behind him pulled out alongside him and
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he was shot through the driver side window of his car with a shotgun the shotgun blast tore through
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his face and ripped off his lower jaw before he lost Consciousness he wrote not an accident he realized that
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they were trying to kill him and he feared for his family's life on that summer night my childhood
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ended I was never alone again we were guarded 24 hours a day everybody had a gun we were fenced in
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we had an attack dog we had a sniper on the roof with a long range rifle you couldn't go out I had hidden a steak
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knife under my mattress and I would just lay there and listen I just knew that the people who
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shot my father were not going to stop until we were all dead [Music]