Passion to Serve Created Through an SAI Internship Program

Posted on September 4, 2014 by The SAI Team in SAI Blog, SAI Internship Program

Written by Rebecca Reed Flashback: It’s 9am on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. I nervously walk the few steps from my parent’s house to Strategic Applications International’s (SAI) office next door. It is the first day of my internship and I have anxiously done what I could to prepare myself to work with SAI for the […]

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Reimagining Police: What Could this Mean?

“The phrase, “sanctity of life,” is an interesting development in discussions about reimagining policing, and it’s beginning to influence the culture of policing . . . Sanctity of life should be the foundation of de-escalation, use of force, and how we approach all calls for service.”

There’s no Retiring When Work is a Calling, and the Calling, a Passion

“Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do – and what you do makes you what you are – is to back up into the grave.” -Hemingway-

Coach Thompson and Baseball

by James Copple Baseball is part of the warp and woof for most children raised in the suburbs of America in the 1950s and ‘60s. And as I watched the Washington Nationals upset the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the 2019 World Series to win the championship title, the memories and thrill of it […]

My Brother Ron and The Jerk

by James E. Copple In 1960, I was 10 years old and living in the Ruskin Heights suburb of Kansas City, an idyllic community occupied mostly by veterans of World War II and Korea. The houses were all the same, with public parks and well-lit streets, and the neighborhood kids would gather on long summer […]

The Bologna Wars

By James E Copple It seemed like big trouble at the time, but a battle about bologna sandwiches ended up being the foundation of a legacy I cherish. I was in fourth grade, and we were scratch-farmers living in Lee’s Summit, a Missouri suburb of Kansas City. We had a few horses, four pigs, about […]