i know audie murphy? to get to the question, i understand why you wrote it, why know audie murphy, why no sergeant york, why suc such a le attention on the individual heroics of? >> i think a lot of it arises from the political turmoil surrounding wars at the time. i think there was an affect, a culture of not romanticizing what men and women were doing over there. was seen as cheerleading in the media. i think that was frowned upon. so i think that really was what eroded those types of stories getting out in sort of a big fashion. and that i think had a big detrimental impact. it was a counterweight to the negative stories that would come out. that's really what was driving me, that imbalance, that there was a lack of balance between some of the negative stories, maybe i'll the grob -- abu ghraib. that's what i find a fix, sure that void on the other side of the scale. >> it's a very important point. win a war is being fought on political terms, it becomes difficult to sort of highlight. and as you said