Stone Mt. - Needs to be dynamited

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16. When I was in high school in the 70s, the KKK had meetings there every year.

I remember how shocked I was. We had just moved to Atlanta from Kentucky.

This was a decade after the mid-60s, when we moved to a town near Montgomery and there was a big billboard inviting everyone to a town-wide family picnic, put on by the KKK. My mother was so happy about that opportunity to meet people, until someone told her what the KKK was. My mother escaped from East Germany ... she was horrified. Of course, we did not go.

We had been transferred to AL from Germany. I was 9. It was right after the Selma March, but I didn't get know anything about that. Our USAF schools had always been integrated

Then in the 80s, I'd be driving through metro Atlanta and the KKK would be on corners at stoplights, collecting donations. They were scary. When my stepdaughters were with me, I made them close their eyes until I gave the all-clear. The car doors were locked.

Also back then, a guy asked me on a date. He seemed nice. A few dates later he opened his car trunk to get something out -- there was a folded KKK uniform in there. I asked him why he had a sheet in the trunk, and he showed it to me. I automatically jumped about 10 feet away from him, and told him he was out of my life.