September 9, 2026 • 33 mins
Bob talks about sub shops in Hornell, Mamdani, and the Peace Village funding vote, Bob takes a call, and talks about the Clancy Trial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Even a chance of a couple thunderstorms, especially as we
head deeper into the day and especially towards the end
of the day and south of Rochester, could see a
couple stronger thunderstorms form. So we're going to be monitoring
for that. Highs today in the upper 70s to near
80 and turning more humid with the wind increasing as well.
Into tonight, any showers and thunderstorms and then just mainly
cloudy will drop into the mid-60s. And for tomorrow, a
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mix of sun and clouds, mid-70s for highs. From the
13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. On Rochester's news, weather,
and traffic station, NewsRadio WAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Downtown cloudy. It's 71 degrees. It is 70 right now
in Ogden.
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It's 8.03 on Rochester's source for breaking news, weather, and traffic,
NewsRadio WAM 1180. A Rochester man accused of killing a
man and dumping his body along the Genesee River Trail
will be arraigned this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Police say 43-year-old Milton Simmons gunned down 22-year-old Mungua A.
Locho after an argument last month at a home on
North Plymouth Avenue near Smith Street. He then allegedly moved
a Locho's body to the trail in a garbage tote
and tried to light the tote on fire to cover
up the killing. Simmons was arrested yesterday with a loaded.
40 caliber handgun, a 30-round magazine, and cocaine on him.
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Simmons faces second-degree murder, evidence tampering, concealing corpse, and gun crimes.
He's a three-time convicted felon who's currently on probation. Dominic Ciccarelli,
News Radio, WAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The driver charged in last year's deadly Thruway bus crash
is expected to be sentenced today to one and a
third to four.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Years in prison.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Prosecutors say Binshaw admitted he became distracted while driving a
charter bus on the Thruway in Pembroke in August of 2025.
Investigators say he bent down to grab a water bottle
that had rolled to his feet and lost control of
the bus. When he tried to overcorrect, it went into
the median and rolled over. Five passengers died. Every one
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of 50 people aboard were injured in some way. Dave Debo,
NewsRadio Wham, 1180.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
The U.S.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Has launched new strikes on Iranian oil tankers.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
U.S.
Speaker 8 (01:55):
Forces struck multiple Iranian oil tankers after Iran attempted to
strike a U.S.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Navy ship Monday. Their attempt failed.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
Iranian officials recently announced they've tested a new missile called
Qasem Basir and had targeted U.S.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Navy assets in the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaker 9 (02:09):
U.S.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Officials said they never struck anything. But this new missile
prompted speculation among military analysts that Iran's been receiving help
from a foreign government. In recent days, Iranian officials have
acknowledged economic pressures due to the U.S. blockade, with Iran's
President Massoud Pazeshkin warning in an interview that those pressures
may erode public support.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
Jessica Rosenthal, Fox News.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
In time, America's trade war with Canada continues to intensify.
Speaker 10 (02:32):
President Trump is moving to block the importation of some motorcycles,
dairy products and alcohol in response to new tariffs from
Canada that went into effect this week. President Trump claims
that Canada has been taking advantage of the U.S.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
For years. The new import ban goes into effect on
September 29th.
Speaker 10 (02:49):
50% tariffs on other Canadian goods, including steel and aluminum products,
furniture and paper products, go into effect next Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I'm Rory O'Neill.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The NFL regular season kicks off with a Super Bowl
60 rematch tonight. The Seahawks raise their championship banner against
the runner-up Patriots from Seattle. The Hawks trounce the Pats
29-13 in a lopsided victory to hoist the Lombardi Trophy
last season. You'll be able to catch that game right here...
on NewsRadio Wham 1180.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
NewsRadio Wham 1180, time now 8.05. Thanks for listening to
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And now the leader of our team, Bob Lunsbury, on
NewsRadio Wham 1180.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Now, sir, I'm second string on the bench drinking all
the Gatorade while you guys are out there working up
the sweat. I appreciate it, though. Good morning, Rochester. I'm
in a funk right now, just a little bit blue,
and it just came on me, and it will dissipate quickly.
But I was looking around, reading such like that, and
I see that down in Hornell. Now, Hornell is in
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Steuben County on the kind of southern edge of our
listening area. If you were to hop in your car
in downtown Ratchatchaw and drive approximately 70 miles south, One,
you'd see the most beautiful countryside God ever made. And two,
you would find yourself back in my home turf, a
can of steel Hornell such as that. At any rate,
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I read a story where down in Hornell, there is
a nationwide submarine sandwich chain, which is going to open
up a business. And that's very nice, and I'm happy
for them, and I wish them nothing but success. But
there is down in Hornell... a submarine sandwich shop called Andy's.
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Andy's is very humble. It's very small, and it's been
around in one form or another for a very long time,
50-plus years. I want to say this as a compliment,
but in a unique kind of fluky deal, Andy's way
back in the day was trying to figure out how
to make the cheapest possible subs they could, and they
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accidentally stumbled across something that I think is perfection. You know,
a lot of places you go, you get a sub,
and it's like a contest to see how friggin' much
meat they can put on there. We need more of this,
more of that, more of the other. And believe you me,
I understand the appeal of that, and I have happily
consumed innumerable subs of that sort. But down at Andy's...
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way back in the 60s and 70s when they were
thinking this stuff up, they thought, well, for example, when
I go there every time, it is, I'd like a
large ham with everything, please. You get some of the
new people in there, they ask you a question, this, that,
and the other. I don't have the answer. I say,
I'd like a large ham with everything, please. And they say, yes,
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but would you like this, that, and the other? You
know what? I've been saying these exact same words for
before you, since before you were born in And I'd
like these exact same words to now produce for me,
from your talented hands, the exact same sandwich for which
I have been hungering a long, long time. Anyway, but
it's like one piece of pressed ham, where they take
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pieces of ham and somehow it all gets pressed together.
Like the stuff that your mom used to make sandwiches
out of at the house, right? Lunch meat, they called it.
But it's like pressed ham, and they'll put like one
slice of that on there. And then a little bit
of lettuce, a little bit of tomato. They put like
a relish and oil and stuff and mayonnaise. Anyway, the
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point being, I just happen to like it a lot.
I like the food. I like the spirit. And anyway,
so Andy's Sub Shop in Hornell. The place that's coming
in is owned by Blackstone, which is a private equity firm,
which has investments around the world. and which has total
assets in excess of $ 1 trillion. And so, you know,
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I'm not expert on the economic circumstances or the demand
for submarine sandwiches in Hornell, New York, but there's a
part of me that worries that you have this half-century-long
local tradition, and you have all the bells and whistles,
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big international giant thing that comes in, And I always
fear for the hometown guy, all right? So God bless
us each as we make our submarine sandwich choices. But
let us, if we could, remember the small hometown people
across our vast, beautiful region who are there making sandwiches
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day after day for us. It's time for Traffic and
Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
From the Clark Christian Traffic Center, protect what you have.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Morning showers and then maybe a little break of sun.
And then this afternoon, between 4 and 8 particularly, there
could be some stronger storms, especially to the west of
the greater Rochester area in the southern tier in the
Finger Lakes portion. Down there, get toward Pennsylvania. Anyway, it
could be rainy down that way. It is 71 at 8, 12,
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and you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. I don't know
if I said it, but the anticipated high today is
in the lower 80s. So Zoran Mamdani, yesterday, he released
170,000 pages of previously closely held New York City documents.
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And at any rate, he says that– well, here's a
quote from him. People got– talking about September 11th, the
many people who– were sickened with the 911 diseases over
the years. You had particularly firefighters die in large numbers,
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state troopers and others, NYPD, Port Authority folks, business people.
You had folks who were at the time and subsequently
exposed to the air down there, and they have had
a series of rather specifically identifiable diseases. And at any rate,
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in regard to that, Mamdami said, quote, people got sick
because the leaders they trusted lied and told them it
was safe to breathe toxic air. People got sick because
the leaders they trusted lied and told them it was
safe to breathe toxic air. Horse crap. Right? People got
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sick Because Muslim terrorists attacked our country in an effort
to kill as many non-Muslims as they could. End of story. Now,
in Mamdani's world, blaming Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, America, who
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was it? People got sick because the leaders they trusted.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Lied, right?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Oh, it was the American officials who did it.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
And me, I thought it was some goat-screwing Muslim bastards
in planes. That's where I was mistaken, apparently. It's horse crap, Zoran.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
It's horse crap. Those people became sick. And many wonderful,
innocent people over the last 25 years have died because
a whole bunch of religious bigots decided they wanted to
kill people who didn't believe the way they believed. And so,
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Muslim terrorists attacked the United States of America. We're not
confused about that. Right? And also, I guess that the
alternative advice from officials could have been, don't anybody breathe
in Manhattan for the next six months.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Right?
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Right?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
What are you supposed to do? The incident occurred. The horrible, cowardly, satanic,
devil-worshiping attack occurred because Muslim bastards want to kill as
many Americans as they could. Why? Because Americans tend not
to be Muslims. Americans tend to be Christians. Americans tend
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to have Jewish neighbors and, of course, be Jewish. We
got gay people over here. We got women with jobs
and educations. We have people who are allowed to think
and live and worship the way they choose. We own
dogs over here. Some people drink alcohol over here. And
we are, what is the word, kafir or kafir? How
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do you say infidel in your language, right? You wanted
to kill us because we're not like you. That's why
those people died, Ma'am Danny. And that's probably what you
should not be trying to hide. 25 years later. 222-1180,
our number. Back with you in a moment. This is
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Hi, everybody.
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Ro Jones here with James Provenzano. James with everybody talking
about budget deeds.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Are forecasted. Maybe a little break in the middle of
the day. In the afternoon, there's the chance for some
storms to return, particularly between 4 and 8 p.m. and
particularly for those areas to the south and west of
Monroe County. High in the lower eight is his forecast.
It is 71 at 822, and you're listening to NewsRadio
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WHAM 1180. So City Council yesterday in Rochester, you've heard
of it. It's a formerly large and significant city north
of Henrietta.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
But....
Speaker 5 (14:17):
And city council yesterday voted to delay funding for Peace Village,
they call it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Why?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Because peace is a nice, meaningless word, right? We just
hold hands and sing. That's what we do at Peace Village.
Some people play guitar. Mostly we wear ponchos. Anyway, my
point is that the city has a plan to give
$ 1. 2 million to a nonprofit to take a chunk of
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property not so far from Nick Tahoe's and the lumberyard
for Morse Lumber and put it back into service as
like a homeless encampment. This was tried a while ago,
some few years back. Unfortunately, and this will surprise you,
the homeless people treated it like crap, and it was
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shut down. Now, homeless people encamp pretty much any damn
place they want. This is not a consequence of cold-heartedness
on the part of the city, the county, Trump, Reagan, Hochul,
anybody you choose to hate. This is a result of
people who are profoundly mentally ill, often addicted like crazy,
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who are out there living a life that, to the
extent they can make intelligent choices, they have chosen. For
people who are in a negative situation, and need help,
there is help available. This is not a heartless community.
There are nonprofits aplenty. There are government programs aplenty. If
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you don't have a place to live and you want
to be inside tonight, you can be taken care of
like that. If you are hungry and you need food,
you can be taken care of like that, right? But
some folks, again, because of addiction or mental illness, do
not want to avail themselves of these services. And so
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they end up putting up a tent or sleeping in
some doorway someplace, and that's how it rolls. At any rate,
there is this Peace Village, which was a good-hearted idea.
If they want to sleep out by themselves, let's make
a place for that to happen. Well, that got trashed.
And now it is, okay, what will the new Peace
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Village be like? And again, The city of Rochester has
got $ 1. 2 million to give to a nonprofit. I'd be
curious to know what percentage of that goes to administrative costs,
but they're hoping to reopen this thing. One aspect of
it is, as you heard reported earlier this morning, is
that the city bought 19 shelters, like little, little houses,
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but a place that someone could get in to and
have heat and air conditioning and and not get rained
on or snowed on. You know what I'm saying? Which,
to me, sounds like a tremendous blessing. And it was
great that the city bought these. I mean, that, I think,
shows a very generous, okay, great. If I was a
homeless person, and if I could have, you know, something
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to crawl into to keep me warm and whatever like that.
The deal is, though, that these 19 shelters, due to
inaction or whatever else on the part of the city
of Rochester, for three years, They have sat somewhere unused, aging,
in a warehouse instead of being outside somewhere where somebody
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could be living in it or getting shelter from it.
So anyway, let's wish them the best as they try
to figure out how to do that. News time is
now with Joe Lasky, the voice of the Finger Lakes,
on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You smelled on my breath.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Monday, we had macaroni salad.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I like macaroni salad a lot.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
When everybody else has had what.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
They're going to eat, I.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Take a can of tuna fish, mix it up in there.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
And I am right now eating my lunch early, and
it is leftover macaroni salad with tuna fish, okay? So
if you're smacking and happy sighing, you'll know what's going
on over here. Dave, I appreciate you calling and holding on, sir.
Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Hey, good morning. How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Quite well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
So I was in a guard unit that went down
to Ground Zero about three weeks after 9-11.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
All in all, I spent two years down there, and
when I was doing guard duty on Broadway, which is
up the hill from Ground Zero, there was a guy
in a moppy suit, which, you know, hazmat suit.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Military-oriented protective posture, right? M-O-P-P, right?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Yeah, and so what he was doing was these things
were hanging off the light poles, and they looked like
bird feeders. And I said, hey, what are you doing?
He said, well, these things hang off the light poles
and they collect air samples, you know, air quality. And
I said, and I had no mop gear on. The
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people working down, we called it the pit, down in
the pit, they had masks, but they weren't all full
up in gear. And I remember Susana saying, hey, am
I okay up here? Think of it like Ridge Road,
down the ridge, right? And he said, as long as
you stay up here, you're fine. But as soon as
you go down into the pit, that's where you need
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to mask up and make sure you are wearing hazmat gear.
And so I just thought I'd offer that. And I
know that after I got out and everything was over
and done with, I got lots of letters from the
government talking about, hey, go to the doctor, get checked out,
make sure you're okay, because everything goes to your home
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of record, of course. And so to think that we
weren't looked after or in the minds of people in charge,
I think, is a little disingenuous, so I would just
like to say that the people that served there, not
only was it the municipalities, but even the civilian workers,
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you know, they were looked after, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
No one carelessly or heedlessly endangered you. There was prudent
action taken, as you see it. I'm asking you a question,
not putting words in your mouth, but prudent action was
taken to protect you as best they could and knew how.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, and so, like, you know, when things like this happen,
whether it's, you know, COVID or, you know, massive disasters,
people don't have a playbook, right? They don't have a
checklist of what they got to do and what we
do next and check this off. And, you know, we're all, like,
scrambling and doing the best we can in the moment
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to take care of the ones we care about the most.
And so to say that people were negligent when there
was no playbook, you know, no one– has a notebook
on a desk that says, oh, hey, let's do this
when planes fly in the building. So, yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I think that's awfully well said, and I think it's
very wise. Can you hold on for just a moment?
I need new traffic and weather, okay? It's time for
traffic and weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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at Brockport Spencerport Road in Sweden, a collision. I'm Debbie Duhame, NewsRadio,
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Speaker 5 (22:35):
You don't need to out-squat your friend Sven. The Sam
showers people will probably start seeing soon. A little bit
of a clear out in the afternoon. And then later on,
maybe between 4 and 8 p.m., there could be some
significant thunderstorms, especially southwest of Monroe County. High is expected
to be in the low 80s. It is 71 at 842,
and you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Speaking with Dave,
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who was in the National Guard and went down to
Ground Zero. I think what you say makes perfect sense
to me in every regard, and I appreciate that. What
was it like being called down there? Were you in
the Air Guard or in the Army National Guard, sir?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
I was in the Army Guard. I actually did three
branches of service in my career, but at that moment
I was in the Army Guard. And at first, when
it first happened, they asked for volunteers, right?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
There was a large group of us that volunteered to go,
and I think that in itself, you know, people just
did what they had to. We volunteered. And so, yeah,
I was in the Army Guard.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Could I ask what unit were you with then?
Speaker 9 (23:47):
I was in a maintenance unit out of Rochester. 134th?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
No.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 13 (23:51):
Oh, man.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
I knew you were going to ask me that 25 years, man.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Culver Road Army? Yeah, Culver Road.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, the old armory.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
That place has changed.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yeah, 100%. I think that was the 134th maintenance company there.
But you were a soldier, right? You've been through basic training.
You were the uniformed United States. When that attack occurred,
what did you as a person think and feel, please?
Speaker 9 (24:16):
So I was in Anvil, Pennsylvania at Fort Indiantown Gap.
Do you know where that is?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
Yeah, so I was switching over. I was a big
communications guy in the Navy, and I wanted to do
something different. So I ended up on top of a
heavy wheel truck learning how to fix heavy wheel trucks.
And I was a staff sergeant, and the major sergeant
comes in, and he says, you know, these planes flew
into the building. We're all standing down. My wife was
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a preschool teacher. I was in Pennsylvania. She was freaking out.
And so... I looked at him, and I said, you know,
that's not even funny, right? I mean, why would you
come over and make a joke like that, right? Because
it was just, you just don't even think, right? You
just don't think stuff like that happens. And so, you know,
for that rest of the day, we stood down. We
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went back to the barracks, and we were all glued
to our TV.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
When you first went to Ground Zero and saw the
devastation there and the impact and the thought of the
lives lost, what was that like, please, sir?
Speaker 9 (25:18):
So when we went down, it's really weird. You just
are in a mindset of do what you have to do,
do what you're asked to do. Let's do whatever you
can to help the people there and just be present, right?
It's not until like after you're done and you come
home and you lie down in bed and you fall asleep,
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do you get, you know, that PTS thing going on.
And so when you're there, you're just, I'm doing whatever
I can to to help the people that are immediately
around me in whatever capacity that they need, whether it's
escorting families down, you know, because it ended up being
a funeral. Excuse me, I sneezed. Or, you know, standing
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guard on a ferry going over to Staten Island or
standing at the bridges and tunnels doing whatever they asked
you to do. And you're there with your comrades and
the men and women And in the midst of all that,
you know, you're having fun too, right? Because you're allowed
to celebrate your service and things like that. But it's
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not until you really get back and until it all
settles inside your mind and your soul that you really
understand what an impact it has on.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
When you were down there, and Dave was in the
New York Army National Guard on September 11th, when you
were down there in New York City helping out, as
passers-by were there, how did people relate to you? Did
they say anything to you?
Speaker 9 (26:53):
They were great, right? So people in New York City
get a bad rap, you know, I think, anyway. Sure.
People are friendly. You get on the train, on a bus,
people will ask you and thank you for your service.
They want to know about you. They want to know
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your history. I You know, after the Gulf War, I
was in the Navy. We went down to New York
for Fleet Week. People asked for my autograph. So, you know,
it was weird, you know, being kind of held up
on a pedestal for me personally because I just wanted
to be there and do what I could to help people.
But people in New York City are hardworking Americans trying
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to do the best they can for their families and families.
And I will tell you, we would walk down the
street and people were afraid to go on the subways
because of what happened. And we would say, ride the subways.
It's okay. We rode them every day up and down,
back and forth. Re-engage back into society. Re-engage. Because I
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always try to tell people, continue with your routines and
the things that you did because if you don't do that, then...
Somehow the folks that meant ill will to us have won, right?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
100%.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Because that's what they wanted to do is disrupt our lives.
And so I always try to keep going forward. Engage
confidence back into people.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
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Even a chance of a couple thunderstorms, especially as we
head deeper into the day and especially towards the end
of the day and south of Rochester, could see a
couple stronger thunderstorms form. So we're going to be monitoring
for that. Highs today in the upper 70s to near
80 and turning more humid with the wind increasing as well.
Into tonight, any showers and thunderstorms and then just mainly
cloudy will drop into the mid-60s. And for tomorrow, a
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man and dumping his body along the Genesee River Trail
will be arraigned this morning.
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Police say 43-year-old Milton Simmons gunned down 22-year-old Mungua A.
Locho after an argument last month at a home on
North Plymouth Avenue near Smith Street. He then allegedly moved
a Locho's body to the trail in a garbage tote
and tried to light the tote on fire to cover
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40 caliber handgun, a 30-round magazine, and cocaine on him.
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The driver charged in last year's deadly Thruway bus crash
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charter bus on the Thruway in Pembroke in August of 2025.
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Has launched new strikes on Iranian oil tankers.
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acknowledged economic pressures due to the U.S. blockade, with Iran's
President Massoud Pazeshkin warning in an interview that those pressures
may erode public support.
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Now, sir, I'm second string on the bench drinking all
the Gatorade while you guys are out there working up
the sweat. I appreciate it, though. Good morning, Rochester. I'm
in a funk right now, just a little bit blue,
and it just came on me, and it will dissipate quickly.
But I was looking around, reading such like that, and
I see that down in Hornell. Now, Hornell is in
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Steuben County on the kind of southern edge of our
listening area. If you were to hop in your car
in downtown Ratchatchaw and drive approximately 70 miles south, One,
you'd see the most beautiful countryside God ever made. And two,
you would find yourself back in my home turf, a
can of steel Hornell such as that. At any rate,
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I read a story where down in Hornell, there is
a nationwide submarine sandwich chain, which is going to open
up a business. And that's very nice, and I'm happy
for them, and I wish them nothing but success. But
there is down in Hornell... a submarine sandwich shop called Andy's.
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Andy's is very humble. It's very small, and it's been
around in one form or another for a very long time,
50-plus years. I want to say this as a compliment,
but in a unique kind of fluky deal, Andy's way
back in the day was trying to figure out how
to make the cheapest possible subs they could, and they
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accidentally stumbled across something that I think is perfection. You know,
a lot of places you go, you get a sub,
and it's like a contest to see how friggin' much
meat they can put on there. We need more of this,
more of that, more of the other. And believe you me,
I understand the appeal of that, and I have happily
consumed innumerable subs of that sort. But down at Andy's...
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way back in the 60s and 70s when they were
thinking this stuff up, they thought, well, for example, when
I go there every time, it is, I'd like a
large ham with everything, please. You get some of the
new people in there, they ask you a question, this, that,
and the other. I don't have the answer. I say,
I'd like a large ham with everything, please. And they say, yes,
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but would you like this, that, and the other? You
know what? I've been saying these exact same words for
before you, since before you were born in And I'd
like these exact same words to now produce for me,
from your talented hands, the exact same sandwich for which
I have been hungering a long, long time. Anyway, but
it's like one piece of pressed ham, where they take
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pieces of ham and somehow it all gets pressed together.
Like the stuff that your mom used to make sandwiches
out of at the house, right? Lunch meat, they called it.
But it's like pressed ham, and they'll put like one
slice of that on there. And then a little bit
of lettuce, a little bit of tomato. They put like
a relish and oil and stuff and mayonnaise. Anyway, the
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point being, I just happen to like it a lot.
I like the food. I like the spirit. And anyway,
so Andy's Sub Shop in Hornell. The place that's coming
in is owned by Blackstone, which is a private equity firm,
which has investments around the world. and which has total
assets in excess of $ 1 trillion. And so, you know,
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I'm not expert on the economic circumstances or the demand
for submarine sandwiches in Hornell, New York, but there's a
part of me that worries that you have this half-century-long
local tradition, and you have all the bells and whistles,
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big international giant thing that comes in, And I always
fear for the hometown guy, all right? So God bless
us each as we make our submarine sandwich choices. But
let us, if we could, remember the small hometown people
across our vast, beautiful region who are there making sandwiches
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day after day for us. It's time for Traffic and
Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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From the Clark Christian Traffic Center, protect what you have.
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Morning showers and then maybe a little break of sun.
And then this afternoon, between 4 and 8 particularly, there
could be some stronger storms, especially to the west of
the greater Rochester area in the southern tier in the
Finger Lakes portion. Down there, get toward Pennsylvania. Anyway, it
could be rainy down that way. It is 71 at 8, 12,
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and you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. I don't know
if I said it, but the anticipated high today is
in the lower 80s. So Zoran Mamdani, yesterday, he released
170,000 pages of previously closely held New York City documents.
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And at any rate, he says that– well, here's a
quote from him. People got– talking about September 11th, the
many people who– were sickened with the 911 diseases over
the years. You had particularly firefighters die in large numbers,
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state troopers and others, NYPD, Port Authority folks, business people.
You had folks who were at the time and subsequently
exposed to the air down there, and they have had
a series of rather specifically identifiable diseases. And at any rate,
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in regard to that, Mamdami said, quote, people got sick
because the leaders they trusted lied and told them it
was safe to breathe toxic air. People got sick because
the leaders they trusted lied and told them it was
safe to breathe toxic air. Horse crap. Right? People got
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sick Because Muslim terrorists attacked our country in an effort
to kill as many non-Muslims as they could. End of story. Now,
in Mamdani's world, blaming Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, America, who
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was it? People got sick because the leaders they trusted.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Lied, right?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Oh, it was the American officials who did it.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
And me, I thought it was some goat-screwing Muslim bastards
in planes. That's where I was mistaken, apparently. It's horse crap, Zoran.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
It's horse crap. Those people became sick. And many wonderful,
innocent people over the last 25 years have died because
a whole bunch of religious bigots decided they wanted to
kill people who didn't believe the way they believed. And so,
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Muslim terrorists attacked the United States of America. We're not
confused about that. Right? And also, I guess that the
alternative advice from officials could have been, don't anybody breathe
in Manhattan for the next six months.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Right?
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Right?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
What are you supposed to do? The incident occurred. The horrible, cowardly, satanic,
devil-worshiping attack occurred because Muslim bastards want to kill as
many Americans as they could. Why? Because Americans tend not
to be Muslims. Americans tend to be Christians. Americans tend
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to have Jewish neighbors and, of course, be Jewish. We
got gay people over here. We got women with jobs
and educations. We have people who are allowed to think
and live and worship the way they choose. We own
dogs over here. Some people drink alcohol over here. And
we are, what is the word, kafir or kafir? How
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do you say infidel in your language, right? You wanted
to kill us because we're not like you. That's why
those people died, Ma'am Danny. And that's probably what you
should not be trying to hide. 25 years later. 222-1180,
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Are forecasted. Maybe a little break in the middle of
the day. In the afternoon, there's the chance for some
storms to return, particularly between 4 and 8 p.m. and
particularly for those areas to the south and west of
Monroe County. High in the lower eight is his forecast.
It is 71 at 822, and you're listening to NewsRadio
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WHAM 1180. So City Council yesterday in Rochester, you've heard
of it. It's a formerly large and significant city north
of Henrietta.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
But....
Speaker 5 (14:17):
And city council yesterday voted to delay funding for Peace Village,
they call it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Why?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Because peace is a nice, meaningless word, right? We just
hold hands and sing. That's what we do at Peace Village.
Some people play guitar. Mostly we wear ponchos. Anyway, my
point is that the city has a plan to give
$ 1. 2 million to a nonprofit to take a chunk of
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property not so far from Nick Tahoe's and the lumberyard
for Morse Lumber and put it back into service as
like a homeless encampment. This was tried a while ago,
some few years back. Unfortunately, and this will surprise you,
the homeless people treated it like crap, and it was
(15:11):
shut down. Now, homeless people encamp pretty much any damn
place they want. This is not a consequence of cold-heartedness
on the part of the city, the county, Trump, Reagan, Hochul,
anybody you choose to hate. This is a result of
people who are profoundly mentally ill, often addicted like crazy,
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who are out there living a life that, to the
extent they can make intelligent choices, they have chosen. For
people who are in a negative situation, and need help,
there is help available. This is not a heartless community.
There are nonprofits aplenty. There are government programs aplenty. If
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you don't have a place to live and you want
to be inside tonight, you can be taken care of
like that. If you are hungry and you need food,
you can be taken care of like that, right? But
some folks, again, because of addiction or mental illness, do
not want to avail themselves of these services. And so
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they end up putting up a tent or sleeping in
some doorway someplace, and that's how it rolls. At any rate,
there is this Peace Village, which was a good-hearted idea.
If they want to sleep out by themselves, let's make
a place for that to happen. Well, that got trashed.
And now it is, okay, what will the new Peace
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Village be like? And again, The city of Rochester has
got $ 1. 2 million to give to a nonprofit. I'd be
curious to know what percentage of that goes to administrative costs,
but they're hoping to reopen this thing. One aspect of
it is, as you heard reported earlier this morning, is
that the city bought 19 shelters, like little, little houses,
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but a place that someone could get in to and
have heat and air conditioning and and not get rained
on or snowed on. You know what I'm saying? Which,
to me, sounds like a tremendous blessing. And it was
great that the city bought these. I mean, that, I think,
shows a very generous, okay, great. If I was a
homeless person, and if I could have, you know, something
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to crawl into to keep me warm and whatever like that.
The deal is, though, that these 19 shelters, due to
inaction or whatever else on the part of the city
of Rochester, for three years, They have sat somewhere unused, aging,
in a warehouse instead of being outside somewhere where somebody
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could be living in it or getting shelter from it.
So anyway, let's wish them the best as they try
to figure out how to do that. News time is
now with Joe Lasky, the voice of the Finger Lakes,
on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You smelled on my breath.
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Monday, we had macaroni salad.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I like macaroni salad a lot.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
When everybody else has had what.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
They're going to eat, I.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Take a can of tuna fish, mix it up in there.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
And I am right now eating my lunch early, and
it is leftover macaroni salad with tuna fish, okay? So
if you're smacking and happy sighing, you'll know what's going
on over here. Dave, I appreciate you calling and holding on, sir.
Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Hey, good morning. How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Quite well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
So I was in a guard unit that went down
to Ground Zero about three weeks after 9-11.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
All in all, I spent two years down there, and
when I was doing guard duty on Broadway, which is
up the hill from Ground Zero, there was a guy
in a moppy suit, which, you know, hazmat suit.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Military-oriented protective posture, right? M-O-P-P, right?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Yeah, and so what he was doing was these things
were hanging off the light poles, and they looked like
bird feeders. And I said, hey, what are you doing?
He said, well, these things hang off the light poles
and they collect air samples, you know, air quality. And
I said, and I had no mop gear on. The
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people working down, we called it the pit, down in
the pit, they had masks, but they weren't all full
up in gear. And I remember Susana saying, hey, am
I okay up here? Think of it like Ridge Road,
down the ridge, right? And he said, as long as
you stay up here, you're fine. But as soon as
you go down into the pit, that's where you need
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to mask up and make sure you are wearing hazmat gear.
And so I just thought I'd offer that. And I
know that after I got out and everything was over
and done with, I got lots of letters from the
government talking about, hey, go to the doctor, get checked out,
make sure you're okay, because everything goes to your home
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of record, of course. And so to think that we
weren't looked after or in the minds of people in charge,
I think, is a little disingenuous, so I would just
like to say that the people that served there, not
only was it the municipalities, but even the civilian workers,
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you know, they were looked after, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
No one carelessly or heedlessly endangered you. There was prudent
action taken, as you see it. I'm asking you a question,
not putting words in your mouth, but prudent action was
taken to protect you as best they could and knew how.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, and so, like, you know, when things like this happen,
whether it's, you know, COVID or, you know, massive disasters,
people don't have a playbook, right? They don't have a
checklist of what they got to do and what we
do next and check this off. And, you know, we're all, like,
scrambling and doing the best we can in the moment
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to take care of the ones we care about the most.
And so to say that people were negligent when there
was no playbook, you know, no one– has a notebook
on a desk that says, oh, hey, let's do this
when planes fly in the building. So, yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I think that's awfully well said, and I think it's
very wise. Can you hold on for just a moment?
I need new traffic and weather, okay? It's time for
traffic and weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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westbound right by 590. It's a crash blocking two lanes.
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on 490 and on 390. Empire Boulevard at Wilbert Track
Road and Penfield, a collision there. And Sweden Walker Road
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at Brockport Spencerport Road in Sweden, a collision. I'm Debbie Duhame, NewsRadio,
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Speaker 5 (22:35):
You don't need to out-squat your friend Sven. The Sam
showers people will probably start seeing soon. A little bit
of a clear out in the afternoon. And then later on,
maybe between 4 and 8 p.m., there could be some
significant thunderstorms, especially southwest of Monroe County. High is expected
to be in the low 80s. It is 71 at 842,
and you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Speaking with Dave,
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who was in the National Guard and went down to
Ground Zero. I think what you say makes perfect sense
to me in every regard, and I appreciate that. What
was it like being called down there? Were you in
the Air Guard or in the Army National Guard, sir?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
I was in the Army Guard. I actually did three
branches of service in my career, but at that moment
I was in the Army Guard. And at first, when
it first happened, they asked for volunteers, right?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
There was a large group of us that volunteered to go,
and I think that in itself, you know, people just
did what they had to. We volunteered. And so, yeah,
I was in the Army Guard.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Could I ask what unit were you with then?
Speaker 9 (23:47):
I was in a maintenance unit out of Rochester. 134th?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
No.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 13 (23:51):
Oh, man.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
I knew you were going to ask me that 25 years, man.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Culver Road Army? Yeah, Culver Road.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, the old armory.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
That place has changed.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yeah, 100%. I think that was the 134th maintenance company there.
But you were a soldier, right? You've been through basic training.
You were the uniformed United States. When that attack occurred,
what did you as a person think and feel, please?
Speaker 9 (24:16):
So I was in Anvil, Pennsylvania at Fort Indiantown Gap.
Do you know where that is?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
Yeah, so I was switching over. I was a big
communications guy in the Navy, and I wanted to do
something different. So I ended up on top of a
heavy wheel truck learning how to fix heavy wheel trucks.
And I was a staff sergeant, and the major sergeant
comes in, and he says, you know, these planes flew
into the building. We're all standing down. My wife was
(24:45):
a preschool teacher. I was in Pennsylvania. She was freaking out.
And so... I looked at him, and I said, you know,
that's not even funny, right? I mean, why would you
come over and make a joke like that, right? Because
it was just, you just don't even think, right? You
just don't think stuff like that happens. And so, you know,
for that rest of the day, we stood down. We
(25:06):
went back to the barracks, and we were all glued
to our TV.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
When you first went to Ground Zero and saw the
devastation there and the impact and the thought of the
lives lost, what was that like, please, sir?
Speaker 9 (25:18):
So when we went down, it's really weird. You just
are in a mindset of do what you have to do,
do what you're asked to do. Let's do whatever you
can to help the people there and just be present, right?
It's not until like after you're done and you come
home and you lie down in bed and you fall asleep,
(25:39):
do you get, you know, that PTS thing going on.
And so when you're there, you're just, I'm doing whatever
I can to to help the people that are immediately
around me in whatever capacity that they need, whether it's
escorting families down, you know, because it ended up being
a funeral. Excuse me, I sneezed. Or, you know, standing
(26:04):
guard on a ferry going over to Staten Island or
standing at the bridges and tunnels doing whatever they asked
you to do. And you're there with your comrades and
the men and women And in the midst of all that,
you know, you're having fun too, right? Because you're allowed
to celebrate your service and things like that. But it's
(26:27):
not until you really get back and until it all
settles inside your mind and your soul that you really
understand what an impact it has on.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
When you were down there, and Dave was in the
New York Army National Guard on September 11th, when you
were down there in New York City helping out, as
passers-by were there, how did people relate to you? Did
they say anything to you?
Speaker 9 (26:53):
They were great, right? So people in New York City
get a bad rap, you know, I think, anyway. Sure.
People are friendly. You get on the train, on a bus,
people will ask you and thank you for your service.
They want to know about you. They want to know
(27:15):
your history. I You know, after the Gulf War, I
was in the Navy. We went down to New York
for Fleet Week. People asked for my autograph. So, you know,
it was weird, you know, being kind of held up
on a pedestal for me personally because I just wanted
to be there and do what I could to help people.
But people in New York City are hardworking Americans trying
(27:40):
to do the best they can for their families and families.
And I will tell you, we would walk down the
street and people were afraid to go on the subways
because of what happened. And we would say, ride the subways.
It's okay. We rode them every day up and down,
back and forth. Re-engage back into society. Re-engage. Because I
(28:05):
always try to tell people, continue with your routines and
the things that you did because if you don't do that, then...
Somehow the folks that meant ill will to us have won, right?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
100%.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Because that's what they wanted to do is disrupt our lives.
And so I always try to keep going forward. Engage
confidence back into people.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
You betcha. Dave, thanks so much for your service. Thanks
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