I've never been that close to gunfire.

I know this is going to be a close election, and I'm deeply concerned about the process, ... If you believe that there isn't voter fraud going on, you probably also believe in Martians.

There was an exchange of gunfire.

It was just as close to Castleberry as it was to W.S. Neal and Castleberry had a very good basketball coach, ... I was into sports and loved basketball. They didn't have a football team. I was an above average student in a class of 19. I was able to get an academic scholarship to Jefferson Davis Junior College when I graduated in 1970.

You can only close if you opened.

The response that we got was heavy gunfire, more gunfire,