Reply #34: My older brother & his friend slaughtered my pet pigeons when I was just a kid.

[AnArmyVeteran]

When I was a teenager I raised homing pigeons. I had about 20 of all them, each one different in color, but all beautiful. I often took them miles away and let them go and they would always return home. But I could no longer take care of them because we were moving, so I thought I could take them to a place far enough away they couldn't find their way back. A pigeon can always survive in the wild very easily. I didn't have a truck needed to hold a spare cage I had to transport them, by brother's friend did, and my brother and his friend said they would drive me. Then when we got about 25 miles away we stopped by a big field. I was about to open the door, get out of the truck and the let my pet pigeons go free. But my older brother and his friend both got out of the truck first and then they uncovered a tarp in the back of the truck and grabbed two rifles, and as I looked on in horror, they shot and killed all of my pets inside the cage.

None of my pleading would stop them and I felt so much guilt to have been a part of their deaths. Even though I didn't do anything to hurt them I felt horrible because I couldn't stop them from being slaughtered. I trusted my brother and his friend and they betrayed me and slaughtered the pets I had for years.

Both turned out to be right wing conservative extremists. My brother is also a 'Christian'. He is also extremely selfish without the ability to feel other people's feelings.

I know all conservatives are not bad people. It seems as if most are ignorant, but they often mean well, even if they are gullible enough to listen to radio hosts who market nothing but hatred. But my brother and my older sister are both conservative extremists, racists and Christians. Now that I lost my last parent I no longer have to see or hear from them. Being separated from them has been so refreshing because they are such toxic people.

Anyway, the story in the OP opened up this memory I've had for all these years and I wanted to share it in hopes it might help to purge me of the feelings I had that horrible day. I wonder if others have experienced similar abuses when they were kids.

Thank you very much for listening...