"Did I loan you my cook?" The older man had recently lost his wife and was tearfully trying to comprehend a line-by-line in a folder covered in colored sticky notes of every size.  Under a halfpad size fuschia colored list of errands was a series of tab stickies.  "On that one?  Did I?" A middle aged woman picked up a cloth napkin and put it on his head so a corner was hanging over his nose.  Just then a tour of the facilities for prospective workers followed a Staff member into the lodge-style dining room.

   Daughters and sons of the Greatest Generation were very reluctant to speak about "decline" in their elders' mental and physical acuity.  Some of the fighting in the Middle East brought to the fore some of our worst fears in regards other nations' standing militaries having way more continuity than ours.  When we realized they'd infiltrated us, and were employing tactics used in war in Europe, Korea, and Vietnam there was a bit of a healthy panic.  Late, late boomers and Gen X put fire under our feet to learn everything we could about (i)everything(i).