I was about 12 or 13, and my brother was 10 or 11, we were on our way to a local movie house to catch whatever was playing, and we had to walk down this real long dark street to get there.
On the other side of the street were a bunch of 16 to 17 year old hoodlums,(that's what my dad called them) any way they start makin' comments about me and my brother, when all of a sudden my little brother, outa nowhere shouts come over here and say that and my brother will kick your butts

Needless to say I tried to shut him up and beat a hasty retreat.
The kids across the street came and one of them grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, when one of the other kids pulled out a knife,(probably a Buck 110, they were real popular back then) opened it and proceeded to put it up to my throat, as the knife came closer I managed to put my right hand between the knife and my neck.
Just as the tough kids were starin' to get tougher, a car turned the corner and started to head right for us. When the thugs noticed the car the one with the knife tried to cut my throat as they began taking off, I reached out with my foot, and just as he was turning, kicked him in the

as hard as a I could, I know he went away with a reminder of that night. The car that had been comming down the street pulled over to help us, I didn't even know that my hand had been cut until the guy in the car pointed it out. He gave me something to wrap my hand in and gave us a ride the movie house where they called my parents and the police.
I still have the scars across the 4 fingers, that I wedged between the blade and my neck.
The police took a statement, but no one was ever caught, to this day I think the kids that did this, were either older brothers of people I was friends with later in life, but no one ever admitted it.