Just before 8:30 on Monday morning, people in the cafeteria of Building 197, at the Washington Navy Yard, started hearing the sound of gun shots. In a very short time, thirteen people were dead, including the one they believed to be the gunman, a man later identified as Aaron Alexis; more were wounded, and many friends and relatives would be getting awful calls in the next hours.
After having been discharged from the Navy, Alexis served as a naval reservist and had been working as a civilian contractor for a division of Hewlett-Packard that was upgrading equipment used on the Navy/Marine Corps intranet, the company confirmed Monday. Investigators said he may have recently lost that job, giving him a grudge to nurse.
This US NAVY rocker patch with flags is very patriotic and warms my heart a little during these horrible times.
