the border crossing and actually, you know, helping to indicate the mexicans against the french invasion. well evan what you've done and i am so impressed. i just in this piece but excited about your your forthcoming book with lsu is again, this globalization of the civil war is so important, but we're always just basically looking to europe you look south and the tradition of herbert bolton. you're probably one of the few people having, you know over gold i know broad he reads everything. he'll probably be not the wvu with about to gettysburg friends, right? you remember this you were still an undergrad we talked and you said everyone these three undergrads had read michael holtz the week party. well, that is bigger than a bible. it's huge and i thought it just goes to prove that my reference to the civil war house is being another animal house was apple and slanders. you guys are extremely studious before i turn it over to ashley evan. i think that the lesson learned here. is that what us grant should have done as president. he should have built a wall on the eastern side of mexico. keep the fren