mr. cronkite, was cronkite. he had deadlines to meet that night, so could not get as pie-eyed as of devotee else. [laughter] >> that's what he told your mom and a letter. i am inclined to believe him. hemingway makes several appearances in "assignment tohell," none of them particularly flattering. as andy rooney said you should never meet your literary heroes because all of your illusions get shattered. i promise this is going to be a lot of fun. we will get a lot of back-and-forth stuff going here in just a bit. we have a great panel, and i just want you to know how honored i have been to have spent the last three years, and how lucky i am to get paid to write something i care about as passionately as world war ii journalism, and to follow these five great correspondence, this journalistic the end of brothers. walter cronkite and an amazing guy. we are fortunate to have chip with us tonight he's lucky to be here at all. his old man flew a mission over botts etd cannot see germany, trapped u-boats that flew at s

cronkite, [cheers and applause] >> wow. oh. y'all need a minute; right? [laughter] [applause] well, ms. shirley, that's your new name. so this is a really special moment for all of us in this room. mrs. shirlly's only in new york for one night so she's here with us here at the shawmberg, and straight away, if you'd like to ask questions at the end, write ladies in white filter down, write them down, and they'll take the cards so we can put questions to ms. shirley from the audience at the very end. i want to start with -- we had a beautiful conversation on the phone. we this this i know you moment, and in chapter one, this was page six of the book, you talk about when you would, as a child, drive down the road, the back roads of georgia and how scary that was, but you write in the first chapter through this incident in july 2010, that there are more -- there's more than one way to terrorize somebody based on what happens. talk a bit about that. >> well, that's back in the years when it really was scary,i before we liberated, let's say, baker county, but to have this happen, to have a blogger -- i mean, you're only trying to do the best that you can for everyone, and to have someone