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As I was walking back past the Supreme Court,
you know, you could kind of see in your peripheral vision,
there were a lot of people sort of walking around with—
not with great urgency, but with purpose.
And all of a sudden, there was a very loud boom.
And looking back, I can only imagine that it was a, a sonic boom from one of the,
one of the military aircraft that had been scrambled over Washington
and were now flying overhead because I don’t—
there’s no evidence that there was a bomb or anything else that may have made that noise.
When that happened, me and everyone that I could see in my peripheral vision
stopped and kind of, kind of winced and paused for about two or three seconds
and then everyone started to run because no one knew what that could’ve been.
No one knew the world that we were living in and the threats that we were under.
They were just starting to digest that and that was just a moment that’s just,
just burned into my memory because it was frightening.
It was frightening for our own personal safety and it was frightening for those
who we were going to see or to try and protect or to, to help.