We think we're all protected. We think we're all safe.
I remember I had to work a late shift at a hotel I was working at, and the morning shift. So I was living a distance away, so I ended up just staying over in one of the rooms there. And I just remember getting up a little earlier for my shift, clicking on the TV news and what I thought look like a movie premiere for an very, very actiony war drama on going on on our land, turned out to be not a glorified war movie going on on our United States property and over in New York. So kind of immediately after I got dressed to realize that this is actually happening, and went down to the front lobby, and we were actually going to be hosting a certain company that actually had most of their members in their main office buildings in the Twin Towers. And they had sent over a couple of their other, you know, employees just kind of make sure everything was set up. And it was kind of like walking into a trauma center. I guess the best way to say like grief counseling section of our, in our lobby, there was just a lot of people that were just in shock and awe, and just didn't know what, what to say next, and who was even alive. Because there are a lot of there a lot of the people that they left behind to come to set up for that conference a day early, were possibly and some of them were inside the Twin Towers at that time. For me, it kind of brought me into a community with the world understanding that, you know, well, heck, we think we're all protected, we think we're all safe and we think "nah we just see it on TV. It's not gonna happen to us." I mean, yeah, it does. And it did. And there's people who will, you know, I don't think it's one of those things we're ever going to forget entirely. Some will be able to forgive, but there'll be a lot who don't forget, and we just learn and grow from it. That's the only way we're gonna survive anything, as we all learn and grow as a community and as a world.
Paul Louviere
