mr. friedman my publisher and friend. finally, all of you for being here. it's good to see old friends, it really is. and colleagues. it's good to see you at this event. first of all, let me say flames and smoke visible is a book about you as well as me. there is nothing in this book that you as firefighters haven't experienced in your own way and i want to make that very clear, okay? firefighting is a calling, and if it isn't recalling when you are hired on the new discover it was recalling all along. but you didn't know it and until you got the job and you were affected by the five-year drought, you didn't know it. true firefighters notify your ground. it's a place of danger and hard work and where good deeds are done. it's a place where professional colleagues come together in order to accomplish the simple act of saving lives and protecting property. it's a calling. and like all of you, i considered it a privilege to be a firefighter and a special privilege to be part of the amol norfolk fire department. flames and smoke visible is a memoir that depicts

mr. friedman was a recipient of the award, but i have a great pleasure of announcing that for this year's award winner is john morgan moore -- john norton moore. [applause] john has had an amazing career. we get a lot of applications for the award but i'm holding up his cd which runs for 22 pages, small print. i will give you the table of contents, 47 books and why of book reviews that he's spent so much time he doesn't have time to read books because we only have five book reviews. thirty-three newspaper articles and letters and 58 testimony statements including government testimony statements. and an unpublished paper which i assume soon may be published now that you are the award winner. he has had an extraordinary career of such dedication to the rule of law and national security. i thank you for what he will continue to for the rest of this panel and what you will continue to do for us as long as you still have a breath in you. thank you very much. i want to point out today that john is going to be doing his panel with an extraordinary distinguished group of people who i think have t