They came all the way from Canada

December 8, 2009

More than 1,000 of them – to pay their final respects to four officers from the Lakewood, Washington Police Department, who were killed in the line of duty just over a week ago.

Sergeant Mark Renninger
Officer Tina Griswold
Officer Ronald Owens
Officer Greg Richards
RIP.

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Thirty-Eight

November 25, 2009
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We all have people who touch our lives in many ways. One of those folks was Mike Casalini, the first manager I had at Target that took me under his wing and mentored me professionally. When I was just an hourly employee, Mike saw in me some sort of future potential and helped [...]

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Gapingvoid Art hits my Office

October 25, 2009

Did a little minor office redecorating this week – thanks to some art from Hugh MacLeod and his Gapingvoid Gallery.
I like the new art! Gotta keep things fresh!

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Staff Sergeant Jared Monti

September 17, 2009

Staff Sergeant Jared Monti, of Raynham, Massachusetts – just a few hundred yards from my former home in Taunton, Massachusetts, was today awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously, for his actions in 2006 in Afghanistan:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:
Staff Sergeant Jared [...]

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I still remember

September 11, 2009

Lt. Ray Murphy, FDNY, who died on 9/11 at the World Trade Center.

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Remember

September 11, 2009

I said everything that I think I will ever have to say about 9/11 four years ago:
In the end, I think we all have the responsibility to remember what happened that day – to us – to our fellow man – here in our own country.
A few weeks ago, while having coffee with a peer [...]

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Ted Kennedy passes on

August 26, 2009

Senator Edward M. Kennedy passed away yesterday. The New York Times talks about his last few months:
But the senator’s condition took a turn Tuesday night and a priest — the Rev. Patrick Tarrant of Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Mass. — was called to his bedside. Mr. Kennedy spent his last hours [...]

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Mourning

August 24, 2009

As the six month anniversary of her passing came upon me, I told myself that I would sit before this keyboard and write of how I felt — about what it’s like to have a friend of thirteen years ripped away without much of a warning.
But I can’t — I can’t decide if [...]

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