 then all of a sudden the dad isn't around anymore and he sort of this this weird connection between what was going on in the town at large was affecting families like mine and i i think that's that's just it's it's kind of sad right i mean these these places are you know very patriotic people live there on my block in mckinley street two kids graduated from the middletown high school class of 2003 me and this kid named nicholas both of us enlisted in the marine corps that year that was in the middle