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The Truth About Me
Force is a form of communication. It is the most emphatic
possible way of saying “no”.
Sometimes my job is to say no, sometimes very emphatically, to violent
people. I can make it sound more
official, but in the end I get paid to go into a volatile situation, usually
alone and usually outnumbered by sixty or more to one and prevent inmates from
preying on each other or attacking my fellow officers. That’s the job. Since I don’t fight every day, or even
every week (anymore- I’m a sergeant now, one step behind the front line) most
of the minutes and hours of the job are pretty easy, far too easy for what they
are paying me. But every once in a
while on an ugly night I more than earn my keep.
My name is Rory Aaron
Miller, and I’m a sergeant for a correctional agency in the Pacific
Northwest. I write, I drink lots
of coffee, I enjoy sitting on my deck with a good Islay. Desert born and raised, I
miss the color
of moonlight on sage and the smell of juniper, but the view here is nice.
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