16th October 2006

Alert state ‘heightened’

We are escorted by Kenny who tells us about his hobbies [ he asks if we have any ,I tell him I run twice a week ], he tells us that he makes models but only from the Vietnam era because they had the best kit. He goes on about about U.S. military history, ‘the USA went into Vietnam as peacekeepers’ ; [‘PEACEKEEPERS!’ said my assistant David ] and also really helpful, saying ‘yes’ a lot to my requests to get into various rooms. At one point he interrogates , David about is opinions on the Iraq conflict…I think he is onto him because he is wearing love beads…. anyway, everybody knows him down there and he eases our passage, [perhaps a little more than he bargained for] showing us rooms we were unaware of. These finds come as a result of me leading the way , photographing in corridor space and David and Kenny following. We see faces ,people nod … Only one uppity senior officer plays a power game, talking over me and to Kenny and saying ‘what the bloody hell is going on?’ I try to appease him, though maybe with not the correct amount of grace

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