“One of the younger guys had been a prison guard and thought this would be less demanding; another was finishing a computer science degree and needed a part-time job in his Queens neighborhood. The military man listened to the rest of us and declared, ‘I wanted to serve my country.'” Beth Pinsker —Confessions of a Baggage Screener (Wired)
God bless quiet heroes.
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