it's easy to see how melville grasp onto this. you know, melville is a young man goes wailing. he's a you know, folksal hand. he reads chases account of the given the book to buy chase's son right when they you know to he's channeling the gods here. yeah, and yeah and and, you know, melville reads this and in his he through the nantucket network got a copy of owen chase's narrative when he was working on moby --. it was very rare by that point and is in in his own copy in the back of it would write you know on the same latitude is where the essex went down. i i read this and had a remarkable effect on me. you know, that's one of the biggest statements and literary history and but that wasn't his only connection. no. no, i mean he i mean he, you know gone whaling him. i mean melville was a collector collector of information a collector of literature collector of like ideas filtering it through and then bringing it out into his works and you know as a young man to go wailing read this in a folk soul. you know given to him by these family connections and then to let that sort of.

. >> reporter: well into her 50s, melville and her beloved dog, murphy, learned the art of search andescue. and their first deployment was oklahoma city. >> we have had an explosion. we need help. >> 168 people died in oklahoma city. that got landed on my heart. >> reporter: while searching the rubble, melville noticed something. >> i could see first hand that although we have many really terrific civilian dog handlers, i saw that for the first two days, the firefighters, meaning the task force, stood back and wondered what are we going to do with these civilians? >> reporter: and so she returned home to california with a plan. start a non-profit, the national disaster search dog foundation that would do something that hadn't been done before. train firefighters and dogs together. free of charge. the kicker -- she'd get most of the kids from rescue shelters. >> looking for a dog that has high drive that doesn't make a good pet. they're going to run on the rubble, they're going to everything just to get that reward. >> reporter: jason vasquez is a fire captain. he says search dogs use

that got branded on my heart. >> reporter: while searching the rubble, melville noticed something. >>rce, stood back and wondered, what are we going to do with these civilians? >> reporter: and so she returned home to california with a plan: start a non-profit, the national disaster search dog foundation, that would do something that hadn't been done before: train firefighters and dogs together, free of charge. the kicker? she would get most of the dogs from rescue shelters. >> you're looking for a dog with high drive, that really doesn't make a good pet. they're going to do everything, run on the rubble, to get that toy and reward. >> reporter: jason vasquez is an l.a. fire captain, and he says search dogs use their keen noses and out-sized enthusiasm to find humans and human remains in disasters. [barking] >> yeah! good job! >> they use their sight to get over the rubble, but their nose is 100% working, and that's how they find somebody. >> reporter: there are a number of folks out here. how does the dog know to go look for the one guy hiding in a barrel. >> it is like a little kid

confidence was the soul of trade in the words of a leading financial publication without it added herman melville commerce between man and man as between country and country would like a watch run down and stop. in an age before the federal government began printing paper money and age when you had to trust in privately issued banknotes glorified, iou's confidence was the de facto national currency. thank you. thank you both. when when i teach about history, i always start with my students talking about how historians are never really telling you the full truth about the past because we can all we have are the remains of what i use as the broken stained glass metaphor so that there's these shards of glass everywhere and the the job of the historian is to try to piece all of the shards back together again to create a picture and it will never be as it once was it can never be fully prepared but we do our best and we do our job to present the best picture that we possibly can of the past. would you talk about your role as reconstructors of stained glass windows into your respective paths files you

holly o'neill melville remembered being brave enough to sing to her laughing husband at her wedding. you know, we got married and three months later, he was killed. >> reporter: she's a social worker but says about ten years ago she realized she had never reclaimed the spirit of that girl. >> the trauma of that sort of ripped away a lot of my self-confidence and my identity. ♪ do you think it's easy ♪ >> reporter: her daughter sean, a singer and songwriter, had an idea. her mom should find a local band and take a chance again. ♪ going to use my, my, my imagination, oh ♪ >> reporter: hello, honey. oh, my gosh. look at you. and you're singing. >> she has a gig i'm bringing a couple of my friends to, and i'm so excited. >> reporter: sew great -- my mom has a gig. [ cheers ] >> reporter: and as the sun begins to set on our gathering, we have an idea. a blank canvas. we ask the kids to use it to send a kind of message to the world. this generation of kids who have lived through so much trauma -- school shootings, financial collapse, and now covid -- carrying inside them a kind of strength

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