my brother and his partner will wendy owen. my younger brother jonathan southard who surprised me two hours ago by showing up at my house from l.a., yes and my absolutely beautiful daughter forgive me for being for saying that out loud, some very yvette, even though company done my first trip to nagasaki in 2003 when she was 10 years old and grew up with this book. over the past 12 years i hired a wonderful team of seven native japanese speakers to help me translate historical documents correspondence and hours and hours of survivor interviews. three of the leaders are sure tonight. i would also like to express my thanks. [applause] there are others who couldn't be here tonight and in particular i would like to express my deep gratitude for the late -- who worked side eyesight with me for eight years helping me translate the survivor's words into the most nuanced english we could find. excellent administrative support for the book and you can tell me where you are, charlene brown jeannie callahan, lorraine who is not here tonig