I also recall that some lawsuits were going to be filed for integration of Detroit's suburbs with the inner city of Detroit. My parents were all set to move further out to avoid us kids from being forcefully bused. The suburbs politically organized and that never happened. For two years, in the second and third grade, I actually attended Detroit schools when my dad got a new job within the city of Detroit. I recall that the education I got there was very good with frequent trips to the various museums downtown when downtown was still safe and prosperous. The other thing that destroyed Detroit's economics was the riot in 1967. At that time we were back in the suburbs and the rioters really did run wild burning and looting so bad that the 82nd Airborne, fresh from Vietnam, had to be deployed there. Several years later in the North Dakota ANG I met a former memebr of the 82nd who was there and he said when they arrived the riot suddenly ended. For years afterwards the burned out building were still standing and many displaced businesses and families never returned.



  

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