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i also want to thank tonight's event committee, mark romano, tom curry, mark bataglini and tom lyons, and thank you to senator scott brown, who was here earlier but had to go. he's got a full schedule tonight. so he was able to meet the veterans and greet them. some other people, george luz jr. george's dad was featured in band of brothers and george is my omar bradley. while i'm sitting there like eisenhower -- i don't smoke. but if i did smoke i'd be like -- george is the guy who calms me down and tells me, hey, everything's going to be okay, i'll take care of all the little details. and you need little details in "operation overlord" and other things, the invasion of normandy. lou le doux from a.c. bats donated the bats out front that we're selling tonight. and we've really benefited from his involvement. he's a board member of the foundation. we have some silent action items. all the items out there that we're selling tonight raised money for the foundation and its mission so we can go to place like guadalcanal and normandy and take these veterans back and get their personal histo