mentioned, kindly identify yourselves when you -- my name is lewis woolf. i was in laos. i want to thank this gentleman. the may be the first person of my knowledge to ever publicly say that he was on the ground, in uniform in laos. thank you. laos,lt of secrecy around which jackie and i and some of the others who have been in laos and works there -- and jackie and her husband, roger, were in a group called international voluntary services, which was a precursor to the peace corps. we lived in the villages. we spoke lao. we ate their food. we loved the lao. we love their people and the culture. one thing that escapes public knowledge is this: secrecy around laos, which, for example, today the vietnam war more to my there is no single u.s. military personnel who is identified on the wall as died in laos. it did not happen. maybe some of your colleagues were killed during the operation. some were. even before from outside of -- they were on the ground. maybe some of you have heard about an investigation which was held in detroit in the 1960's, and the second investigation m