death, and it was this idea that i started out with by saying it was better to live nobly and die heroicry at age 19 tom to live aimless his for 90 years so that was in part -- going back know mother saying, the most important thing to me was he fought. don't care if he died as much as if he fought well. so that led to it. you realize one reason why this was is there is a mass death. mass burials on along island from cholera. with peoples built in mass trenches in new orleans because of dysentery and cholera. so the trench offered the civil war were not exactly new. they part of society and what was going on with mortality in general, because of those wicked diseases was pretty well northern by then. and it extrapolated and got worse as the armies gathered together and more people died from disease than battle in the civil war. >> it. >> watmore noble to die for aa die cause than cholera. >> guest: exactliment even if you lived to 90. >> would like to present -- before i ask the last pre, the national press club mug. >> thank you. [applause] >> i just like to remained the audience the book