Why Crowds and Lines Can Be Overwhelming. OODA Loop

Why Crowds and Lines Can Be Overwhelming.  OODA Loop

My LEO hubby accompanied me inside Wells Fargo one day when I had to make a deposit for work. There was quite a line and remember turning around and looking up at my husband’s face and watching him. There he stood in a modified cop pose with his hands looking relaxed, fingers gently laced in front of him. I knew better. He wasn’t relaxed. I watched his face closely as he scanned the room with various desks and people in the room. I laughed gently and shook my head. He looked at me and said, “What?”. I think I said something like, “Don’t you ever shut it off?”.

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OMG! This is What it Means for Him to be a COP! My 9-11 Awakening

OMG! This is What it Means for Him to be a COP! My 9-11 Awakening

It was a family wedding. My cousin was getting married in New York and I had already bought tickets for my husband and I to fly out from Texas to the wedding in September 2001. He would get to meet my grandmother finally and get to know my mother’s side of the family in the smallish town where she was raised. It was a family event. Of course we were expected. Of course he would go. But he couldn’t.

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