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And where I was, I was like on Flatbush Avenue, if anyone knows Brooklyn.

It's like Flatbush and 7th Avenue.

So this is like...

It's kind of a straight shoot down to the Manhattan Bridge and then the Brooklyn Bridge is down there, too.

But the Brooklyn Bridge you can walk over.

And so at this point already, people who were down in the financial district had just decided to walk back to Brooklyn because they realized they weren't going to get a cab or get on the subway.

And so you'd see just like one guy in a suit and tie covered in soot head to toe, like walking up like, oh, he must have just been down there and walked up.

And but I remember now this is in Brooklyn, but even there is very busy.

people were stopping and asking each other, people who you would pass on the street but never talk to, were stopping and asking everyone, how's your family?

Everyone okay?

All right, are you fine?

Like there was this like community spirit that you just didn't, you don't typically get in New York City.

There's just too many people.

You can't talk to everybody.

But that part of it was kind of beautiful.

And then of course governments do what they do and immediately manipulated that into launching wars that they wanted from before 9-11

That had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11.

Yeah.

Which is, you know.

Well, this is the thing.