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Pastimes : Meet the GIVES! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (1700)	6/8/2002 9:13:58 PM
From: PatiBob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6378

Yes he does. He thinks that by-gones should be by-gones. Everything that happened is in the past and he's not the same monster he was when we were growing up. I'm the youngest in the family and the only one that isn't afraid of him. I spend less time around him than the others did so I didn't get as many years of abuse off him as the rest. He went to my Tante's house to shoot my mother back when she served him with divorce papers. I met him in the front yard. He pointed his shot gun at me. I dared him to shoot me, he dropped the barrel and I took it away from him, held the end to his neck and waited for the police......he fainted just as they pulled up. He later told the police he was only trying to scare my mother into dropping the divorce. He also told them that had they not gotten there when they did, he just knew I'd shoot him. They didn't by it and he's never forgotten it. We've tried to get him into various VA hospitals for mental help but they keep saying he's not crazy enough to hold. He can just walk away anytime he wants. He was a prisoner of war during WWII and suffered greatly. From what I understand, he was a very different person before the war. That's no excuse for his behaviour after because there was help out there, he just chose not to get it.