When good books go bad
So the next thing on my reading list is Nate Fick's book (the Lt. from Gen Kill) and so I thought I'd lucked out in finding a really cheap copy at Powell's.
And then I got it and it was stamped from a library in Ft. Lewis (an army fort not too far over the border in Washington) and I was all, huh, that's weird. But I own lots of former library books, so it doesn't phase me until I can't find any kind of decommission stamp or anything, so I look try looking it up in their library system.
And there is a lost copy!
Ack, think I, but then the call numbers don't match, and my book is stamped with a different building name.
It says RCF Library, Ft. Lewis.
Huh, think I, that's not on the list of Ft. Lewis library buildings (people more familiar with military acronyms will already know where this is going). So I google Fort Lewis RCF Library and get a puzzling return of news stories about abuse in the Ft. Lewis prison system.
RCF?
Regional Correction Facility.
Yep.
I have an army prison library book.
Which is weirding me out enough at this point that I think I'm going to go return it and pay the extra $3 for a hopefully not formerly incarcerated copy (and okay, also the lack of a decommission stamp bugs me too).
And then I got it and it was stamped from a library in Ft. Lewis (an army fort not too far over the border in Washington) and I was all, huh, that's weird. But I own lots of former library books, so it doesn't phase me until I can't find any kind of decommission stamp or anything, so I look try looking it up in their library system.
And there is a lost copy!
Ack, think I, but then the call numbers don't match, and my book is stamped with a different building name.
It says RCF Library, Ft. Lewis.
Huh, think I, that's not on the list of Ft. Lewis library buildings (people more familiar with military acronyms will already know where this is going). So I google Fort Lewis RCF Library and get a puzzling return of news stories about abuse in the Ft. Lewis prison system.
RCF?
Regional Correction Facility.
Yep.
I have an army prison library book.
Which is weirding me out enough at this point that I think I'm going to go return it and pay the extra $3 for a hopefully not formerly incarcerated copy (and okay, also the lack of a decommission stamp bugs me too).