mr. emhoolah, again another national treasure, korean war veteran. mr. emhoolah?] do you want to use the mike? >> i want to thank all of you. ahoo means thank you. so i just wanted to clarify. i really appreciate each and every one of you that come here today and yesterday. and i'm really honored to be invited to be here with you. there are a lot of veterans, americans, native americans and other veterans throughout the nation here. and any one of them could have been here.

mr. emhoolah's division, the thunderbird division. she's chocktaw from oklahoma. y is incredible. and following her will be mr. chuck boers, apache indian. and when you hear their stories it sort of brings everything from mr. medicine crow on up. and we see how our modern warriors are serving in today's military. so debra? >> i'll get this figured out. i'm big chief note pad number two pencil. electronics aren't real good for me. as he said, i'm debra mooney. i joined the army national guard in 1991, started out with the thunderbird division, with the 45th. i'm a combat engineer. and i have a connection with every one of these guys. the 45th engineer, the 45th for these guys. my last deployment i was with the field artillery unit. and then i met chuck at the powwow. so i have a connection with every one of them for some way. you know, our indian country is getting smaller. so i joined in 1991. i started out as a quartermaster group and then moved into the combat engineers two years later. within the combat engineers i met many people and done a lot of different thi