The BB gun truce of 1985

There are certain summers that live forever in memory.

For some, it was the year they fell in love. For me, it was the year I nearly lost an eye to a Daisy lever-action.

It began in the spring of 1985, when my friends and I, armed with imagination and poor judgment, decided to organize a neighborhood militia. My family and I had moved to Amarillo by that point.

Well, it was technically Amarillo.

We li…