Guy that attacked dave aftermath11/25/2023 three years? And if you’ve got no rain, you can’t grow anything. And Montana’s been in the middle of a drought for. And it’s an ag-business community, which means farming and ranching. And I know a little something about this town. It’s about a hundred miles south of the Canadian border. There’s a town in Montana by the name of Choteau. “I’ll tell you about a thing that happened last night. And if you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any (expletive) sense? Whew. And we’re told that they were zealots, fueled by religious fervor. As I understand it - and my understanding of this is vague at best - another smaller group of people stole some airplanes and crashed them into buildings. “The reason we were attacked, the reason these people are dead, these people are missing and dead, and they weren’t doing anything wrong, they were living their lives, they were going to work, they were traveling, they were doing what they normally do. “I just want to go through this, and again, forgive me if this is more for me than it is for people watching, I’m sorry, but uh, I just, I have to go through this, I’m. And I, and my hope for myself and everybody else, not only in New York but everywhere, is that we never, ever take these people for granted. But boy, it means something now, doesn’t it? They put themselves in harm’s way to protect people like us, and the men and women, the firefighters and the police department who are lost are going to be missed by this city for a very, very long time. “.And fortunately, most of us don’t really have to think too much about what these men and women do on a daily basis, and the phrase ‘New York’s finest and New York’s bravest,’ you know, did it mean anything to us personally, firsthand? Well, maybe, hopefully, but probably not. “The twenty years we’ve been here in New York City, we’ve worked closely with police officers and the firefighters and.” who can do that? That’s a pretty short list. To run the city in the midst of this obscene chaos and attack, and also demonstrate human dignity. He’s an amazing man, and far, far better than we could have hoped for. And I believe, because I’ve done a little of this myself, pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. there is only one requirement for any of us, and that is to be courageous, because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. Rudolph Giuliani is the personification of courage.” all you had to do at any moment was watch the mayor. because we’ve never been through this before. But in this one small measure, if you’re like me, and you’re watching and you’re confused and depressed and irritated and angry and full of grief, and you don’t know how to behave and you’re not sure what to do and you don’t really. “And I just want to say one other thing about Mayor Giuliani: As this began, and if you were like me, and in many respects, God, I hope you’re not. “Very early on, after the attack, and how strange does it sound to invoke that phrase, ‘after the attack?’, Mayor Giuliani encouraged us - and here lately implored us - to go back to our lives, go on living, continue trying to make New York City the place that it should be. “So, to come to this circumstance that is so desperately sad, I don’t trust my judgment in matters like this, but I’ll tell you the reason that I am doing a show and the reason I am back to work is because of Mayor Giuliani. And watching all of this, I wasn’t sure that I should be doing a television show, because for twenty years we’ve been in the city, making fun of everything, making fun of the city, making fun of my hair, making fun of Paul. We’ve lost five thousand fellow New Yorkers, and you can feel it. “It’s terribly sad here in New York City. “But, if we are going to continue to do shows, I just need to hear myself talk for a couple of minutes, and so that’s what I’m going to do here. “Welcome to the ‘Late Show.’ This is our first show on the air since New York and Washington were attacked, and I need to ask your patience and indulgence here because I want to say a few things, and believe me, sadly, I’m not going to be saying anything new, and in the past week others have said what I will be saying here tonight far more eloquently than I’m equipped to do.
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