arnett. peter: thank you very much. it is my pleasure to be here in your community. my daughter lives nearby, so i am a visitor to this area and i will be back in this bookstore again. next week, i will be staying another week. having said that, i was one of those who spent a lot of time in vietnam. i went there at age 26, 1962. i stayed for nine years, living there, i got married there and had two children there and kept going back until the fall of saigon. and i stayed with two other ap colleagues. that was until after the communists took over. you might say, that sounds crazy, but in the era i started being a journalist, in the 1950's, it was not uncommon for american correspondents to be away from home for three years, i would be based in tokyo, be based in afghanistan, or delhi, and he tried to run by ships in the 1950's. this was an era, the vietnam era, you have to think of it as a former period of time. the pictures that were taken in vietnam were simple film processed in a dark room and sent by radio photo, and sometimes to send one little 6x4 picture -- and