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“Everyone you meet here would be happy to kill you,” Officer Murphy told me.“That’s what you have to remember.”
It was my first night as a patrol officer, and Murphy was showing me the ropes.
“Everyone? You think even the little old ladies here want to kill me?” I asked.
Murphy gave me a tight smile. “All right,
almost everyone. But you have to watch out for some of these old ladies.”
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It wasn’t the first time I had heard this sentiment. When I joined the Reserve Corps of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, I went through the same police academy training as full-time career officers, and it often seemed that the primary lesson of our training was the same one Murphy tried to drive home on my first post-academy patrol shift:
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For those who know former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole closely, they know not to lean in to shake the right hand of the esteemed Republican statesman.
For those not as familiar, Dole helps them out by keeping a pen in that hand whenever he is out in public. The pen served two purposes a kind, subtle gesture to discourage people from shaking it, and a therapeutic remedy to an injury that changed Dole’s life forever.
Dole has a history of battling wounds and health issues dating back to his military service during World War II.
A native Kansan, Dole as a young adult was briefly a student-athlete on the University of Kansas’ football, basketball and track teams when in December 1941, he heard over the radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. A year later, he enlisted in the U.S. Army’s Reserve Corps, leaving for active duty in June 1943.
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The pandemic fog is beginning to lift
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Aldin Winslowet-Alps, 82, (right) gets the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from paramedic Don Hart (left) at the Vernon Senior Center.
Almost a year has passed since COVID-19 shut down the world, sent our economy into crisis, and placed our children in front of computers instead of loving teachers.
Sue Hatfield
Most of us know someone who has passed away from COVID-19 or has had to watch an elderly relative spend their last days in isolation. We are all tired. We want to get things back to normal.
Local dentists volunteer to administer COVID vaccinations When Governor Newsom asked the dentist to come out and help with vaccinations, we had over 70 dentists who enrolled in the Reserve Corps, said Dr. Hoa Audette. Author: Teresa Sardina Updated: 5:09 PM PST February 13, 2021
SAN DIEGO San Diego County is seeing more dentists serve as COVID-19 vaccinators. It s Governor Gavin Newsom s effort to speed up vaccination across the state. Dentists from the San Diego Dental Society met at the Chula Vista Center vaccination site Saturday morning.
From the office to vaccinations sites across the county dentists are putting in several hours of their time as volunteer vaccinators.