in fact lawrence moffatt the gentleman in orleans massachusetts who i interviewed at one point toward the end of the interview he asked me how i learned about him and i told him about the french list and i told them i had done research on the internet. this was in july 2003. he said i keep hearing about the internet. can you tell me about it? i started telling them about it and he said this is something you join? which makes perfect sense because this was a man who spent his adult life and insurance. he lived in connecticut but often works in new york. he was a member of a couple of clubs there and that is how i explained it to him. i said i think you would really like it or here he was quiet for a second and then he looked at me and he said do i need it? i left and i said no, you don't. thank you all for coming. [applause] let me just add, i think i mentioned this earlier but if you want information you want tc video clips go to the web site the last of the doughboys.com. their photos and video clips in world war i music and you can also contact me on my web site. i hope you do. i li

finally one day i called the house of the gentleman named jay lawrence moffatt.he lived in orleans massachusetts. i will never forget this because i called up and a woman answered the phone. i had already had upwards of 40 conversations that ended with somebody breaking the news to me that the person i was looking for had passed away. and so i guess what i was a little discouraged and i asked her -- i told her who i was and i said is there any chance that mr. moffat is still living? >> to my great surprise she said he is and then while i was still kind of gasping for breath she said would you like to speak to him? i did speak to him. he told me a little bit about his service just a little bit and we made plans for me to come up and interview him soon after that. in between the time when i learned of his existence and when i first interviewed him i became very nervous. the source of this was my worry that was i kidding myself? >> could somebody really remember in vivid detail things that they had seen and done and felt 85 years earlier? i had never met anybody who