for lifetime achievement to be available for purchase in the lobby so please join me to welcome mister hastings. [applause] . >>. >> thank you so much for all of that i feel as an intruder as an englishman with the american tragedy. but this has meant a huge amount in my life so to meet japanese and americans in the course. on the 28th of may, a 20 -year-old michael machine gunner wrote to his folks at home today all we are doing is looking in the mountains i thought i would drop you a line to say everything is fine five days later it stopped being fine they received a telegram your son died on the second of june he had wounds to the body's remains will be prepared and encased and shipped to you accompanied by an escort to a national cemetery or funeral home and you will be reimbursed an amount not to exceed $500 for expenses. 16000, 899 telegrams went to homes across the land in 1968 nearly 300 a week. and his compatriots had died including north koreans 771 chinese and 2 million vietnamese together with the cambodians and blouse. so in a succession of conflicts exceeded the human cost with af