Yesterday, Tuesday, not Monday was a weird day for me.
At the next table to me at breakfast were four USCP (U.S. Capitol Police) who have suffered so much this year. Later in the day, was the verdict in Minneapolis.
The human mind has to process all of what is in the world. Sports is generally pretty simple. Zone vs. man to man. Even the university president gets it.
When I worked, I occasionally (not too often though), had to go the Hart Senate Office Bldg. near where the recent USCP killing happened. I could go from Union Station (subway) via 1st or Delaware Ave (which is where the killing happen).
I remember some of the on air reporters were shaken up by the car ramming killing. This was their beat. The Senate. The House.
Little did I know what would happen in 2021. And little did I know in August 2001 when I had lunch in the Pentagon what would happen a month later.
And me, in my naivete, thought that being around the White House, Pentagon (the police there have Ak-47s in PLAIN SIGHT), and Capitol Hill was the safest place on earth.