War Story #14 War Games, in Old Linganore Neighborhood. McLean, VA, Hit in the Head with a 2By4 -- but There Is More. Off Old Georgetown Pike, Towards Great Falls (Where Bridge Construction Since 1996

By Patrick Tyrrell

Patrick "Pat" Tyrrell, age 16, at Ellen Shepherd's house. Photograph by Ellen Shepherd in Virginia in 1990.

I moved to Virginia in 1986, and lived in an isolated neighbothood off of a highway, not near any stores or anything, between McLEan, and Great Falls.

There were 15 houses in tyhe neighbood and all of the land was once owned by a 16th house that was in disrepaor and would have minial construction stop and start and stop and start, and me and my friends would go in there with explosives and bb guns and other fun suff and have a "War" . . . TBD.