@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
About a hundred years ago, my great uncle was shot and fatally wounded by a corrupt sheriff who was trying to steal his horses.
My great uncle responded to being shot by going and getting his shotgun, and firing a 12 gauge slug into the back of the sheriff's head.
The county was pretty upset about it. To this day the the local paper in that area still runs an occasional article about their poor precious dead sheriff.
My entire extended family is pretty proud of my great uncle. We recently had "the shotgun" restored in fact. It's an important family heirloom.
I’m just an old skeptic. I tell you I’m even a little ashamed of just how much that whole story smacks to me of some contrived, wholesale BS.
But luckily, my shameful skepticism and rash impudence in calling utter unadulterated BS on your story from your treasured family history can be easily silenced. Since, as you say, there have been multiple times your great uncle’s derring-do was chronicled in the local paper, and it is such a beloved story in your family. it would be easy as pie for you to produce proof of it.
If it is true.
So, go on and prove once again how wrong some like me are, constantly thinking and saying how full of crap you are.
Show us some proof of that fantastic story.
