and when the state of israel was founded in 1948, lou went over and threw for the fling lingus railly -- fledgling israeli airport. i'll get to that story too. so and i sort of immediately bonded. i was a marine, he was a marine, and he just sort of adopted me like a son or a younger brother, and he said i'll take care of you, i'll set you up with everybody over there. so then i went over there, and i was there for three weeks and for six weeks, so nine weeks total interviewing 67 pie lots, paratroopers, hundreds of hours, and then came back and put it all together. so now let me tell you a little bit about the six-day war in context. i won't take long, i promise. is 000 -- 1000 b.c. david, king david of david and goliath fame, captures the city of jerusalem. and the kingdom kind of comes into its own. god commands a temple to be built but not by david, by his son, solomon. the ark of the covenant is there, raiders of the lost ark, the holy of holies, all that kind of stuff. on the temple mount in jerusalem. now cut to 587 be. c.. the babylonians conquer jerusalem, burn the telephone