process to occur and the army bureaucracy to get these guys over, in on his orders, a man named mason hammond -- show of hands of people who have either graduated from harvard or been to a harvard commencement? you al know who mason hammon is. he read commencement at harvard every year from the late 1920s until 199 when he died, with the exception of the war years, and he was a classics professor at harvard, and he was selected by president roosevelt and flown in tother -- to theater. he arrived in sicily three weeks after the american british led invasion. he actually is flown to algeria, thinking he is going to be a monuments officer in north africa when they say, you're just here brief live until we take you to sicily. he says i don't know anything about that area. well -- and he didn't, but mason hammond gets there, no vehicles no operation. i mean, they don't -- they're just winging it. but the thing is, these hospitalments officers and all men at the beginning -- montments officers, all men, are average age 40 years old and have accomplished careers, most have families, many have kid an