two days later, market garden started which was a much bigger headline a much biger headline. and then macarthur returned to the philippines in october, the battle of letee gulf. so he was overshadowed enormously about what's going on in europe and in the pacific. so we talk about our need yeah scrutiny today. well, -- media scrutiny today. but there are some events that drift entirely off the screen, right? you just don't hear anything about it even important things. so i don't think that had even a more progressive media environment had been in place at that time. me, i would also emphasize, chester nimitz was the only american theater commander who won great victories when fighting outnumbered or merely a parity. and he constructed a very shrewd campaign across the central pacific. the total number of americans killed was about equal to a or little less than the number or americans who died six weeks at normandy to advance, you know, 5,000 miles. and nimitz is the guy responsible for that. the one guy who is clearly deficient is rupertus. although, basically once they commi