this incredibly compelling book, "taps on the wall: poems from the hanoi hilton". thank you for joining us. how are you? >> you don't expect a fighter pilot to write poetry. >> i don't know, the thing i can't figure out more than anything else, you have poems in here that are extremely lengthy that you complete the remembered in your head. >> guest: created first and memorized and when through the walls so my wife and little girl who was three months old when i left, 7.5 when i walked in the door might have a legacy in case i died. i didn't die, buried the book for 40 years because it is a piece of my soul but in fact is you have already said, had to make time, run that answer race and won a way as i did it was by creating this verse and tap it through the walls but buried the book for 40 years and thanks to john mccain for doing the forward and people are urging me after all this time to publish this book which was a piece of my soul. >> host: how do you remember? how were you able to recreate that? >> guest: necessity is the mother of invention and i returned to

his books "taps of the walls: poems from the hanoi hilton." this is fm 96 am 550 montpelier people be back at the colby military writer symposium that after these import announcements. >> fair enough? thank you. only 50 copies. will have to work on that one. >> stop by the bookstore on the way out thank you again. take care. >> and please, sir, little slice of vermont. >> thank you. please say hi to my enough for me. i feel like ird know her. >> will take a group of vermonters. it's been consuming in terms of time. >> you are from chicago, right quick >> yeah. i did my show their couple times. >> it's gone from the finch now. but some of the southside have more classical education from the university of chicago. >> thank you again. >> thanks for the coffee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> how are you? your elevation to the sql this is being done? >> that it be great. i was here a few years ago. >> at such a coincidence. >> can i ask you a favor? >> that's okay. you've got plenty to talk about. y