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My family was the only white family for a couple of blocks in any direction, and I welcomed martial law at that time because buildings were being looted and burned, including a shopping center two blocks from where we lived. I hadn't felt so safe in three or four years as when there was a National Guardsman stationed down at the end of the block. The rioting was the last straw and we moved to suburban Maryland four months later.
But the current situation is in NO WAY like the one in 1968 and the President ordering martial law in 1968 was not a madman*. Military chiefs need to say "NO" now and refuse to order National Guard troops or Federal troops into D. C. 
*Yes, he was an asshole, but not a madman.
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