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One of the SF companies I work with was in Iraq and got tasked to pull exterior security for a visit by President Obama.
When it was winding down, the Secret Service Liaison told the Commander that if anyone want to get pics with the POTUS, there was a little free time in the schedule. Allegedly, the CO asked the teams, "Hey, anyone want a picture with the President?" He tallied the responses, and said, "No thanks, we're good to go."
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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