50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 2
I was having a late breakfast with a couple of the engineers I worked with at Rockwell and watched the two planes hit the towers on the diner’s TV, Breakiing News. Needless to say, the whole country was in shock and denial for years after. It was the excuse for our country’s criminal behavior for the next 20+ years. Just what our war-mongering leaders had prayed for… Anyone who didn’t support our breaking of international law was against us and subject to invasion/annihilation… as ‘terrorists’ or their sponsors. We’re still using that tired old excuse to this day.
I was living in an apartment in Kent at the time. After being at Rockwell for a few months, they allowed me to do much of my writing work from home. I had set up my living room to have my office in one corner, where I had my desk, computer, dial-up modem, printer/copier, and filing cabinets arranged and ready for use. I was just required to attend any and all engineering meetings related to the manuals I was writing. I was also required to put in an appearance at Rockwell at least 3 times a week. That job lasted about 18 months before my projects were completed, and they let me go.
To be Continued
–LE
CynOp 
6 responses to “50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 2 – Memoir Continued”
I was also at work when it happened. I worked in middle management at a Walmart store, and I recall that the background music they played on the overhead speakers switched to continual news reports for the rest of the day. Some events, you never forget where you were when it happened.
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That’s true. I was in history class at Whittier Jr High in Lorain, OH, when Kennedy was shot. The announcement came over the school PA.
The engineers that I was having a late breakfast with and I stayed at the diner and watched the news coverage for another hour or so before heading back to work. Everything changed after that, and my job there ended shortly thereafter.
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When Kennedy was shot, I was in the 5th grade. A girl who walked home for lunch came onto the playground when she returned and told a bunch of us about the shooting. I think all of us thought she was lying, but when we returned to class, our teacher told us. I remember Miss Lily was crying.
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My dad always thought the CIA was responsible. He said that it was pretty common all over the world for governments to assassinate their leader. The most famous on in western culture is probably the assassination of Julius Ceasar. He never believed the Warren Report…; -)
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Robert Kennedy Jr. believes his father and uncle were “disposed of” by our own government.
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I have no idea what the truth is, but that would certainly seem to make more sense than the highly improbable scenario the Waren Report iterated…; -)
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