peter armstrong, vincent.metimes soldiers sit on a stack on my flat pile for a while because i want to draw them when they want to be drawn opinion >> he also talks about the portraits that he's drawn over the time that he's been doing this 4,500 portraits, as a matter of fact. he won't draw a portrait until he feels it's time. >> that's why i'm doing this now. >> on this day it's time to draw alvin. he said it's his way of giving back. >> when i came back from vietnam i felt i had this debt. didn't know what it was. trying to payback my friends. i sit here really for all these hours for nothing. other than the fab thct that th human being died for me and he didn't know me. >> he's still serving. that's the thing. >> he also tells us why he uses pencil. >> i'm writing a story. i may be doing a portrait but believe me when i tell you i'm writing a story. >> does he keep these pictures or scene them to families. >> michael is a important psychiatrist artist by career but for anybody who has a fallen service memb

. >> coming up, tim armstrong's take on technology right now and in the next hour don't miss aig ceo peterhing cnbc because we are first in business worldwide. >>> we want to thank you for bringing us all sorts of great guests and conversations. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to know what it's been like now, how long's it been since you did the deal? >> i think it will be a year next week. >> what's been the biggest difference? >> the biggest difference for me is 40% of my time being back at the company around products and services and those things. when you're not public, we get to focus a lot on strategy and product development and customer relationships. and i think the second thing for aol we're competing in a space where the market has changed dramatically in terms of scale if you look at how big facebook is and google and those type of things. so it gives our strategy a real boost. the world is going mobile. >> right. >> and being inside of verizon has given us a huge chance to spend almost all of our time talking about mobile. the verizon executives have done an unbelievably gre