(04-13-2024, 08:15 AM)BIAD Wrote: As a side-issue, two families in southern Ohio seemed to have the same view of what being
'neighbourly' means as the earlier Hatfield/McCoy situation!
I recall when those killing happened. I didn't consider it to be the same caliber as the Hatfield-McCoy feud. It didn't take long for those folks to start rolling over on one another to save their own asses, and I've got doubts that either the Hatfields or the McCoy would have done the same.
Those Wagners are a rough bunch. When I was a teenager, a Wagner (not one of those specifically, but probably kin from across the state line in West Virginia) gave me advice on how to win a fight. He said, specifically, "You get into a fight, you do yer damndest to kill yer opponent. That's how ye win."
I knew a Wagner whom it took 7 years to pull a 2 year hitch in the Army. He went AWOL a lot, whenever it suited him. Once he was up in I Corp in Vietnam, went AWOL, and went all the way down to Saigon to visit a friend down there. Went back and turned himself in when he was ready. He went AWOL once and somehow managed to get back to the states. MPs picked him up at his house After he'd been AWOL for 2 years. Took 'em that long because they were scared to go in there and get him, I reckon. I have no idea why they didn't court martial him for desertion.
Rough bunch.
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