I have a friend who is one of the managers of the Halls in Nashville now. He was an assistant at the location downtown when that broke out. The staff ended up 'hiding' upstairs until the group moved on. It was enough for the location to close and move to Nexton.We had a retirement ceremony in Baltimore when all of the looting was going on. When the crowd started busting the windows out of the retail store next door all of the Chiefs got up and headed towards the revolving door of the restaurant. Our CO told us not to engage, our command Master Chief told us to make sure we only let one or two through the door at a time. 20 of us all standing there in various stages of dress blues, they didn't try to come in.
You want to talk about mixed emotions? It pissed me off. But, at the same time, when they announced the new location...gotta admit, happy.
