he's the author of the award-winning book on bill mauldin called bill mauldin a life up front, which if you haven't gotten a copy you should and the executive director of the veterans breakfast club a pittsburgh-based non-profit dedicated to sharing veterans stories with the public now, he's all the editor of the book that we're going to be discussing today. it's called drawing fire. the editorial cartoons of bill mauldin todd deepestino. welcome to the welcome to the conference. thank you rob. i could almost smell the chicory coffee and beignets from here in pittsburgh. that's great. it's also good. i'm a clevelander your pittsburgh. that's a whole other session of conversations that we could have and maybe sometime next time you visit us we will but without further ado if you don't mind todd, let's wait into the questions. i think the way we'll do. this is i'll probably we'll have some back and forth for 30 minutes. perhaps they're about and then we know there's gonna be a lot of interest in this particular topic and there's a lot of people out there too. so we'll go to the the moo