Kindle Location 281 of 11052 in former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates’ Book, “Duty”...
“I was a smart aleck, and when I sassed my mother, a backhand slap across the face was likely to follow quickly if my father was within earshot. My mother was expert at cutting a willow switch to use across the back of my bare legs when I misbehaved. The worst punishments were for lying. On those relatively infrequent occasions when I was disciplined, I’m confident I deserved it, though I felt deeply persecuted at the time. But their expectations and discipline taught me about consequence and taking responsibility for my actions.”
Today Secretary Gates’ Mother and Father would be in deep trouble once Little Bob’s Pediatric Lawyer reported their actions to the Authorities.
I can just hear the Presiding Judge admonishing them in open court, “It is not proper to Slap or Switch any child in this day and age in the Good Ole USofA but certainly not a Little Secretary of Defense”.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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Lagniappe: Did he say she used a Willow Switch? Don’t let Adrian Peterson see this.
