So can you talk a little bit about, you know, that, that experience?

Yeah, absolutely.

So just for a little context, someone in my family has fought in every war since the Revolutionary War, and this was not something that was like impressed upon me that this is what you need to do.

Quite the opposite.

On September 11th, I was working for a highway construction company in the Bay Area and, you know, not-- I was working in Livermore.

I lived in Manteca at the time.

I was a year out of high school, or a little over a year out of high school, and essentially when I was getting ready for work that morning, I saw the initial plane crash into the World Trade Center, the first one, and then it was just kind of spiraling like, what is going on? To be honest with you, I was trying to watch music videos on MTV when they used to do music television and play music videos.

So Danny, can you talk about that for a minute?