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dr. melinek, you're an expert on this, but just in a personal level, how do you do this?'m trying to imagine those 75, you know, workers with the dozens of people who have thus far come in, not even complete people in some cases, how do you get through each day? >> it's incredibly difficult if you never worked a mass disaster before. when you are training, you learn to desensitize to be able to put on your hat and put on your gear and go and do the work the next day because the most important thing is there are people at the other end who are waiting for results. there are family members grieving and they want closure. so that is the motivation. >> sanjay, i know you've been through this training, as well. is there any sense of how long this process is going to take? because obviously, there are still, you know, estimates of this perhaps as many as 100 people still in fields in eastern ukraine who haven't been found yet. i assume there is just in timeline for this. >> there really isn't. the first and foremost goal is to return these remains to the people who love them an