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.here the police may have one man covering an area 50 miles away from him.

Wow! I would hate to need an office in a critical situation and know they were that far away.

Here, we have already divided up duties and given each family member a role they will occupy and be responsible for. Did their eyes ever roll over in their heads when we had a family meeting on that.

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Good, the kids should be involved in the planning and know what to expect.

This world is not kind to children, we say we are protecting them, but todays child knows more that I do.

After a nervous experience, with some strangers that were watching us, at an old mine we were looking over.

We worked out code words that only we and the kids knew.

Bill and I did not use our first names, ever, they simply were not us.

So, if we wanted instant attention, we decided the first name yelled out, would not alert a stranger to the fact that we were on the alert and expecting trouble.

And warn the kids to cool it, until we knew what was going on.