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[missizzy]

15 years since the place by dad used to work and I work in now got planed, and in the last few days I've grown fearful again of a far graver disaster that could happen in November. Yeah, Hillary's crime this time is telling the truth, but what good is it to tell the truth when noone who doesn't know it already will listen? Trump's ads were on ESPN during the US Open. During the final days Hillary's attack ads against him began to enroach too. I am not looking forward to commercial breaks during Dancing With the Stars and Agents of SHIELD.
I skipped the Pentagon's remembrance service this year, but there's noone who works in that building who hasn't thought of it these past few days, the day people like us became the target. People like my dad, who was in another DoD facility by that time, but he always might have been otherwise. Whatever you think of us, the Department of Defense workforce, or about how much danger we may be in compared to others who might be in more, you must acknowledge how that hits a person. I am glad to be quietly as home today, preparing more material for Fansided.

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[sparowe]

I didn't actually start my gov't contractor job until the year after--but the first memorial ceremony that I went to, I learned we'd lost someone in the Towers. I'll never forget his widow standing there with one child at her side, another in arms. I'd already understood the fear to some extent, though. That day, a good friend's husband was working in DC, and we didn't know if he was going to the Pentagon that day or not. The hours where we couldn't reach him were some of the longest ever.

My biggest frustration today, is how quickly people forget. They say they remember--but they get angry about anything perceived as an inconvenience. I don't deal with it directly; I'm in administrative security. But I work alongside physical security, and see it all the time. Why are you checking my bag, how dare you stop me, don't you know who I am? Yet these same people, when something like the Naval Yard shooting happens, are the first to complain we aren't doing enough.

[missizzy]

We do need the help, though.