Robert Monroe Day was born on May 12,1930 in Gloucester, MA. He married his high school sweetheart, Janet Bowes, in 1951, to whom he remained married until her death in 2013. After high school, he joined the Army where he served as a Slavic language interpreter. Upon his honorable discharge, he entered the Defense Intelligence School, studying Advanced Intelligence and worked for the NSA. From there, he was admitted to the Naval War College to further his linguistic studies, becoming a cryptologist. He continued to work for various government agencies until his retirement. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Grinnell of Epping, NH, his sister, Nancy Andrews of Rockport and her family. Brewitt Funeral Home, 9 Pleasant St., Epping, NH is assisting the family with the arrangements. "A Note About My Life" by Robert M. Day, June 29, 2020 Over my lifetime I had several separate encounters with people whose actions had a profound effect on the course of my professional life. The main reason I had a 56 year career working in national intelligence I attribute to four people, one an US Army sergeant and the others, three co-workers who miraculously came to my aid just when I needed direction. The reason I am writing this essay is to thank them for their help. After I graduated from Gloucester High School in 1948, I was not very sure what I wanted to do with my life. I did want to go to college, so I spent two semesters at Gordon College, when it was located in Boston. I was not very happy with that experience and I decided not to go back. That was in 1951 when the war in Korea was really heating up. I was a very good candidate for the military draft. However, I did not want to go to Korea as an infantryman, so I decided to enlist in the Navy. In June, I went to Boston to enlist. Unfortunately, the Navy was filled up. After I filled out paper work I gave it to an US Army sergeant. He looked it over and said “Oh, you are from Gloucester, I married a girl from Rockport. Would you like to be stationed at Fort Devens?” Fort Devens was located in Ayer, Mass. I said I would. He told me to talk to another US Army sergeant in the office. That sergeant told me that he could assign me to a special US Army intelligence unit. I told him that I would take that assignment. That was the very beginning of my 56 year career in intelligence. I had no idea what I had signed up for or where it would lead me. I was honorably discharged from the US Army in May, 1954. I was married to Janet Bradford Bowes in October, 1951. We lived in Marblehead, Mass for a few months. Then we decided to move to Virginia. I was trying to figure a way to go back to college. Janet worked in a bank in Wahsington, DC. I found work in a grocery store near our apartment in Falls Church, Virginia. One day as I was walking back to work a person from one of the apartments yelled “Hey, Bob”. It was Paul McDermot, whom I met when we were students at the US Army Language School in Monterey, California. Paul suggested that I apply for work at the National Security Agency (NSA) where he worked. I did, was hired and started work in December, 1954. That was the beginning of my 41 year civilian career at the NSA. I retired in December, 1995. My next fateful encounter occurred in a grocery store near my home in Springfield, Virginia in March 1997. A fellow worker at CIA, named Phil, approached me and asked what I was doing. I told him I had retired from NSA. He asked me if I was interested in working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He said that the job only paid $22.50 and hour. CIA had a contract with Raytheon Co. to work on declassifying intelligence, a program started during the Clinton Administration. I was delighted at the prospect of getting a job. That job was the beginning of my 15 years as a contractor for the Government. The final encounter occurred when I was working as a contractor at National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) in Langley, Virginia. I worked there for about five years, 2004-2009. One day I was told my services were no longer needed. I was basically fired. A fellow worker whose name I can not remember told me about a contractor firm that was looking for experienced intelligence officers. I applied and was hired. Democrat Senator, Diane Feinstein, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSIC) started a program to look at the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques used by CIA to interrogate the terrorists incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. I worked on that project until it ended in June, 2012. On that job I made $65 an hour. Since that time I have been really retired. I used to tell people my retirement hobby was working. I am really thankful for the truly good fortune that followed me in my career as an intelligence officer. It was a very great honor to help keep our country safe.