[applause] nick brokausen. >> thank you. i will make this as short as i can so we can get into questions and answers. i would like to say it is a catharsis. and to get my demons done away with so i sat down to write this book. and a small publisher picked it up 15 years ago or ten years ago or something like that. and just to be republished. and i'm not an archivist but i just went through this and decided to put it down on paper in the hopes that people after me would understand the incredible courage of my peers there isn't of me as the narrator as the central figure but it is a tribute to my peers. i would like to read something to give you an idea of exactly what i'm talking about. this is the presidential unit citation awarded that i was privileged enough to be at that ceremony with 300 other survivors for major general staff sergeant so i will read this if i can. and the extraordinary heroism with the observations grew one -- group assistance commanded vietnam. infants cited for extraordinary heroism with a unwavering