It’s about being an American and ensuring its children have every opportunity to be successful in life. It’s about making a difference in life and doing something that affects others in a positive way. The pay isn’t great, but it’s not about the pay or the monetary benefits. She has a passion for her students and puts a lot of personal time into her class. She had the calling for educating our youth and she enjoys working with children. By all accounts she is just like those teachers at Sandy Hook. I try very hard to let my kids be kids and to let my family be a family. My wife doesn’t ask about the crazy calls I’ve been on and I don’t share the gruesome details. I feel that it’s my duty to keep my family away from those things in life that no one should have to see or experience. I recognize this and I try my hardest to deal with it. I’ve built up walls and ways of coping, as those in a maddening line of work do. I’ve witnessed first hand the brutality that we can bestow on each other. Having been in a mix of the Army and Law Enforcement for 17 years, I’m at the point where nothing much rattles me. I’ll say it right now I’m already jaded in life. It’s our jobs as parents to shield them so they can just be kids, but it is getting harder every day. Be it by sociopaths or terrorists, the reality is our children have been stripped of the “simple times.” Our country and the world is changing. The days of a childhood like my own are slowly being taken away by madmen. Another event that weighs on my shoulders as a parent. Yet another incident which our parents didn’t have to worry about when they were raising us. It seems like every day an event takes place that rips away another piece of a simple childhood that we are trying so hard to give our children. It’s made me and my wife angry, it’s made us scared and it’s taken away another slice of a normal life that we are trying to live. We have no answers for the madness that happened, just questions. We have been watching the news and talking about this event to the point of mental exhaustion. Our family represents the first responder, the teacher who was unwillingly thrown into a terrifying situation and the parents who couldn’t imagine anything like this happening to our children. This incident has hit us like a ton of bricks. Two of our children attend the same school where my wife teaches and we are active in the school and church. I work as a Sherrif’s Deputy, my wife is a teacher who grew up thirty minutes from Newtown Connecticut and we have three school age children (one of which is in first grade and the same age as most of the children murdered). We are your typical middle class American family who happens to fall right in the center of the Sandy Hook shooting in several ways. Today I’m going to step way outside of my comfort zone, as the murders that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School have hit me and my family very hard. Those in Law Enforcement or other sensitive fields do this to keep their families safe. Those who know me, see that I use a pseudonym on Facebook and other social media sites. Bryan and the ITS staff have been very supportive of my request to keep a lot of my personal information private. I’ve enjoyed a bit of anonymity here at ITS Tactical over the last few years.
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