However, if you backtrack to the point of why I did this, I did this in accordance with the rules of engagement and the command-control structure that I was working under.

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

No outside contractor would've done that job [the way we did], because we spent so much time scraping down old layers of paint-there must've been 10. We spent two and a half of the four weeks on the project scraping paint.

On a hot summer day, the varnish from the pews would end up on your shirt. We decided that if the church wasn't going to repaint and renovate itself, we would do it for the church.

My situation is not unique as far as the accident is concerned, ... The circumstances are what's unique, and that's what ended up burying me. They didn't want to fix the problem. They wanted to fix the blame.

I think I'm a victim of the fact that it was an international accident,