 and came down 60 miles an hour, and concept, boom, the smoke of the debris came down, walks through even a slow motion as people were running, scared, and disoriented them. I'm Dwayne Jackson, I'm a U.S. Navy veteran from the Vietnam era, and I also happen to be a street vendor in Times Square in New York, and have been for the last 13 years. The first incident in the World Trade Center, the garage bombing of 1993, I was actually on Wall Street that day, September 2001. That was seven blocks from the Trade Center at the time of the attack. Here it is 10 years later, I can still remember that plane turning sideways, banking toward the World Trade Center, and the eerie sound of the engines and the gears grinding as it passed overhead. I didn't panic, not so much that I had all the answers to anything, but I think one of the things with my Navy training was contingencies, and you train for emergencies to be able to do it in the dark aboard ship. I had been vending there for seven years, and it hit home in a big way. In this particular occasion, there was the bringing together of people, of patriotism, blue collar, white collar, black, white, Latino, Asian. There was also the new heightened awareness of being aware of your surroundings, because anything can happen, hence May 1st is a classic example of that. Breaking news, Times Square shut down four hours after the makings of a bomber discovered. I saw the propane tanks in the gasoline, what if that would have been mine? You may know him as the man who saved Times Square, maybe even the man who saved New York. He's the astute New Yorker who on the evening of May 1st alerted police to the suspicious abandoned car containing a bomb. This SUV drove through Times Square on a night such as this, or an evening such as this, was very crowded, and here was this guy willing to kill innocent men and women from all over the world. Had that explosion gone off, I certainly wouldn't be here today to talk about it. We're still here, we're still holding on in Times Square, and people were out here having a great time. People come from all over the world to live in the city, and no matter where you're from, you get to New York and you put on your New York City armor. A lot of people think New York is this impassionate beast of a city that no one knows anyone, and there's not a sense of community, where that's just the opposite of what the realities are. But I felt the need to come back, to open up for business, and that speaks to the tenacity, I think, of New Yorkers in general. There was a sense of togetherness, a sense of we're going to come back, and we're going to come back even stronger.