on my far rate is rob dalessandro, a well-known

on my far rate is rob dalessandro, a well-known author and military historian specializing in the american extra missionary forces, and has written a couple of books. one is for sale outside. i'm going to be a shill for rob and encourage you to buy his book out there. he just came out with a new one called "remembering world war i ," which is being published by eastern national. .t just cannot very recently they are the distributor for the park service. he also is acting secretary of the american battle monuments commission, and most important to me, he is our chairman of the world war i centennial commission. thate just say about rob without his support and the support of the a bmc, we would be having a very tough time right now. so i am very grateful to him and the abmc for their support. [applause] trust me on that, he has been a real hero for us. in the middle is monique siegfried. monique is french born in carthage, tunisia, so a french north african. eating from carthage, she got interested in ancient carthage, and is a student and scholar in the ancient roman wars in north africa. f