This is a new series – Sacrificed for ‘Savings’ … in which we are showcasing the true impact of the Trump-Musk purge of federal employees via DOGE, by allowing those affected to tell their stories in their own words. Erin Cagney was a dedicated archeologist with the National Park Service, where she was tasked with protecting our nations historical treasures at National Capital Parks-East (NACE). She was one of many controversially terminated, seemingly without just cause. Here she is … via a visual diary that she recently posted to social media:
ERIN’S VISUAL DIARY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HER
Erin Cagney also provided an essay detailing her termination. Click HERE to read her first-person account of why that hurt so much and why it puts our nation’s historic sites in peril.
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Your pictures are literally of my backyard. Thank you for all you did for our community. It is a constant raise awareness of the cultural and natural resources on the Piscataway Creek and to hold elected officials accountable to the responsible stewards of those resources. The scientific work you did to document those resources was invaluable. So many people don’t really the rich history is so close at hand, to everyone’s peril now.