welshil 23, general mark will be here. second, i would like to present senator deeds with a traditional coffee mug. [applause] and for the final question, you told us a lot about gus. can you tell us one more untold story that you would like people to know about your son? kidy son was as an ordinary except he had extraordinary ability in many respects. when he was a little boy, this 1995 --bly about well, he was six years old and he would travel with me. his sisters and his mother would call it that he would take one for the team. he would travel with me on my journeys and i shared this thing called the blue ridge economic development commission. he sat for three hours one afternoon in a corner at the squire center at virginia tech while we conducted our meeting. i was chair and he sat there playing with trucks and a little mini garage. a couple years before that, the whole family was at a ballgame in norfolk. the ballpark had just been built and we were out in left field and gus was about -- that was 93 so he was about fo