Across the river from Manhattan, in a parking lot at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the spirit of America is hard at work. Volunteers from small towns up and down the east coast are cooking thousands of meals a day for the rescue workers at the World Trade Center.
Typical Americans with typical jobs and families, who when disaster strikes answer the call of people in need.
VOA-TV's Jeff Swicord visited some of these men and women to find out more about what they are doing and why.