Jack Snell: Wow. This has been a very, a very significant day for us. We've been talking about this plan for so long that we thought we had it pretty well put together. And it has been extremely gratifying to have here so much support for the focus and general outline of the plan. And I must say it's also very, very gratifying to see the power of a group of people, take something and make it so much better. In the comments today, there are just a large number of ideas, suggestions, pieces of data, experience, things that we never would have caught any other way, but by having an open appeal and a session like this.
Clearly there's a lot of concern about the level of, and the manner in which we've chosen to address the occupant behavior and the fire service response in the plan. We'll certainly be taking a very thoughtful look at what you all said today about how we address that. Linking the Homeland Security, leveraging our resources with the talents and resources of others, all of these, partnering in collaboration, looking at risks, redundancy, defense in depth. A lot of very important ideas and strategies have been discussed.
But you know, these are just some of my reactions, and they're sort of off the top of my head, because I haven't even had the time to digest these many wonderful comments. Fortunately there are ten others of our staff in the audience, and they too have been taking notes all day, and they too are reacting to your comments and suggestions. So my guess is over the next couple of weeks we're going to have a very lively time in putting together the revisions warranted by these many thoughtful comments and suggestions.
I share the concern of many of you that it's sad in many respects, that it's so long since September 11th that we're doing this. It's been a burden for me all these months, and for sure it's been a burden to all of you. And the only way that I can see that we individually and collectively can deal with that is through public action, and I salute those of you who are making that commitment to do it. Bureaucracies, whether they're public or private, tend to move slowly. Agitated public, led by true leaders, can make things happen very quickly, and I pray that will happen here. It's gone long enough.
So I thank you very much for your support, and your ideas. And I want to thank you folks, all of you who came to support this effort, to listen. We will make our, we'll be open to inputs through the end of the month, we'll make revisions to the plan, we'll post them, we'll continue with a successive process of refinement all the way through the process, keeping it as open as we can. I want to thank you all, I also want to thank our facilitator. I say there were times during the day when I tell you, there were times during the day Rich when I could not have pushed the button to turn on that yellow light. And I'm sure it was a hard thing to do, and we thank you very much.
Thank you folks.