Fifteen years ago

Wow. It guess I didn't realize that fifteen years had passed since the L.A. riots. Those were strange times. I remember rumors spreading through our high school that stores near where we were (out here in the suburbs) had been burned or looted. They turned out to be unfounded, though. I remember seeing a plume of smoke on the horizon during a school day and wondering if the rumors were true. People I knew—Korean-Americans, mostly—had friends and family members who took guns to South Central to defend the businesses that their immigrant parents had built up out of little or nothing. It's weird to think that, for me, that was half a lifetime ago.

Anyway, Michelle Malkin has a great post that remembers a few of the heroes from those dark days.