if it was it the next day, but soon after chris got hold of our publisher, our editor actually, peter hubbard who's really been a big help for us and said, peter, you are doing this book, boy. this man is really important. that's kind of where we started. johnny, why don't you tell us a little bit, you were born in a city in transit? >> my first time, i want to thank all of you guys are all of your support, and i apologize for my broken english, but jim will explain that. i want to thank matt, that guy, imagine in 2003 in mosul, and this is the first time i saw them after all these years. >> matt, why don't you stand up? matt is an army veteran and -- [applause] >> really put himself on -- put his life on the line for us. so tell us about yourself. >> i born in 1964 in mosul grew up like a normal child and play basketball, high jump, and all my dreams at that time. i want to live in america one of the days. and, unfortunately, marriage and having kids and wife, and this was like my dream disappeared. [inaudible] i didn't have any chance. and in my heart, this is wrong. i deserve this chance.

if it was the next day, but soon after chris got hold of our publisher, our editor, actually, peter hubbard who's really been a big help for us and said, peter, you are doing this book, boy. in this man is really important. and that's kind of where we started. so, johnny, why don't you tell us a little bit -- you were born in a city in mosul? >> correct. >> why don't you tell us about that. >> my first time, i want to thank all of you guys for all of your support, and i apologize for my broken english, but -- [inaudible] i want to thank matt, that guy, i met him in 2003 in mosul, and this is first time i saw him after all these years. >> matt, why don't you stand up. matt's an army veteran, and -- [applause] puts himself on the line for -- [inaudible] >> so tell us about yourself. >> i born in 1964 in mosul, grew up normal child and played basketball, high jump and all my dreams at that time, i want to live in america one of the days. and unfortunately, got marriage and having kids and wife, and it looked like my dream disappeared. [inaudible] at the beginning, and i didn't have any chance.