 And he sort of, this weird connection between what was going on in the town at large was affecting families like mine. And I think that's just, it's kind of sad, right? I mean, these places are, you know, very patriotic people live there. On my block in McKinley Street, two kids graduated from the Middletown High School class of 2003, me and this kid named Nicholas. Both of us enlisted in the Marine Corps that year. That was in the middle, like the Iraq war had started in April, we graduated in June.