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I couldn't even see there was so much blood because I could bend over and it was all just rushing down my face

And he puts the guns in my face like this and starts pulling the trigger. He definitely meant to kill me

Welcome to season 9 episode 208 of Sword and Scale a show that reveals the worst monsters are real

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It was Valentine's Day

1974

At this moment in time

Richard Nixon was president of the United States and was in the midst of waging a war with Vietnam

While also preparing for the fallout of the Watergate scandal

The television series Happy Days had recently debuted on ABC

The Miami dolphins had just won the Super Bowl and Barbara Strysan's the way we were was the number one song in the country

And many ways the lives of Americans in the mid 1970s weren't much different than ours today

Young Americans at that time lived through a controversial war. They saw a president impeached and

And music sports and television storylines were regular topics of conversation

The most important difference between then and now is how science and technology has changed our lives and our understanding of the world around us

Since then methods of travel food distribution

Communication and health care have changed dramatically

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