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To Ed, Yes, our priorities are #%*@^+ up! As you know, I work on Amtrak's high speed rail train. That very evening when I went to work, you couldn't find one cop in sight. Not Amtrak's, not DC's, or even the DC's Metro Transit police (because their car yard is on the same property as our's)!! When we complained about this to the supervisors, they said they would call them, but no one showed up (probably because they didn't call). It was the same way, the night of 11 September 2001. As the smoke and the light from the fire at the Pentagon filled the night sky over Washington, DC., there were plenty of police posted around Union Station, but one out there in the yards where the trains are serviced and repaired. Plus, we get homeless people, who in the winter time, are seen wandering through the rail yards looking for a warm place to sleep or sometimes looking for someone's lunch to swipe from the lunch rooms' refrigerators. When we've called the police on them, by the time they arrive, these jokers are gone. So much for quick reponse. Anyway Ed, the American public has issues. They will be horrified by the trivial and couldn't care less about the truely horrific. One of the news radio stations here in DC that I listen to, WTOP, eventually did a 'what if' story about how secure are our nation's railroad's or their properties (ie: the right of way), but of course that was after they did their lengthy stories about Martha Stewart and that hockey player. So much for what's really important in life, eh Ed?? Glenn A R E A L RAILROADER...A T R U E AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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