and the kind of, you know, the kind of, that thing united the nation in defiance against the nazi luftwaffe. this kind of felt like you were witnessing, you know, something from another, another century almost. it was, you know, a remarkable thing to behold and to report on and then, you know, to be able to do a small part, helping move some of the bags of rubble. when you had finished helping move those bags of rubble and doing whatever else you were doing to help, did you then revert to reporting, revert to capturing details from the scene that you wanted to pass on to the media outlets you work for? yeah, i mean, i had to go back to doing broadcasts later on in the evening. so, you know, i went home and i washed and then i went back out and carried on. this is the second time in my career i've done that because the first time was in greece, when i was reporting on the arrival, the migrant arrivals from boats coming from turkey. and, you know, you film people coming off boats, but you can only get so much footage of people coming off boats. eventually you're like, there's people that need

you know, you have these these forums pilots and then you have the nazi pilots who are equally good, the luftwaffe. but it's just one of these things that this book is, you know, when you when you write a book, it's it's just this thing that's and dear to your heart. you you hold it close. you're you're proud of it. it's not quite like child, but it's something very very close, you know? and then like when your child graduate from high school, from college, and they go out into the world when a book is released, it's like tuesday, you know, it finally came out. i turned this into the publisher a year ago. it finally came and i spent the this whole week kind of wallowing in my sadness. and i realized what it was. i was running the other day and i was also i to stop. and i thought, you know what, i'm sad about it because. i've got to say goodbye now. it's out into the world and people can say wonderful things about it. they can say horrible things about it. and there's nothing i can do. i mean, for for the rest of eternity, the book's out there, and i have to say goodbye to it. break up with it, as