and that was as far as he could go in ferndale. so his family actually moved to minneapolis to afford him the opportunity to go to a good high school and his dream was to get into the naval academy, which is really interesting. but, you know, when you finish high school in minnesota applied to the naval academy and the waiting list was so long that he he took additional courses to try to you know college courses just to try to further educational is waiting to hear from the naval academy finally after a year and a half he gives up and applies to west point and they take him right away but he had he had wanted to be in the services his life. and then if you take a look at the the things that he did, i mean, it's a it's kind of a typical career in some ways for interwar officers that is kind of age and seniority, you know civilian conservation corps assignments, the princeton expedition. and in the punitive expedition lots of folks in his time period were involved those things. but one of the unique things about it is that very early