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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Apology for being away

i apologize for being away so long. i doubt if anyone is reading this but there we go.
so i'm born now what..
for the next couple of years i suppose my life was mostly like everyone elses. we did not have a lot of money and we did not live on a farm so we could not grow food. times became hard for my parents.
my parents became desperate. you have 6 kids to feed, and remember this was before welfare. so they decided that robbing a bank would probably pay off. i guessing this because i never really asked my mother about it and she never really brought it up with me. i found out most of this information from newspaper articles and speaking with family members is the last 4 or 5 years.
so my parents hatched and carried out a bank robbery. my mom and dad loaded me.( who was about 2 at the time) into the car and went went to the next county north of where we lived. again i guessing this was in hope of no one recognizing my father or the fact that my uncle lived in the same county and i could be left with them when the heist occured. good babysitters have allways been hard to find, either way that is how it went down.
my father went to the bank, robbed it. he then picked up me and my mother and we went home...
my fathers luck was not very good or else he was just not a very good bank robber. he had not used a mask and one of the bank tellers recognized him and told the police and f.b.i. just who he was..
my aunt and uncle were questioned and i believe them when the said they did not know he was going to do it.
it did not take long for the coppers to show up at our house. my dad took the rap even though i later learned from my sister that mom was was the major architect of the plan.
my dad gave most of the money back. some of it had been spent buying food and paying bills.
we have a picture of my dad being lead away in handcuffs by police and fbi agents.
the look on his face really bothers me, if i think about it it haunts me.
he did very wrong, trying to do very right.
i would like to think that if my daughter were hungry i would find some other way but i must admit... if times were bad enough i would do what i had to do to take care of her..

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