host: there is a book by william mcneill that is called a lovely title. it is called keeping together in time. the history. that at the dawn if you wantedn, to get out and get some meat for dinner. the chances were that you would be the lines dinner. over time, the habit grew of young men doing the killed the lion dance together. that gave them a much better chance of coming home with some protein. was -- isnct into young men. we are trying to get by these without having any coming-of-age ritual at all for young men. many of them join gangs and fraternities. that is what you have. i do believe an essential part of the honor that is owed to the is the honorietnam that as terrible as it was and as unfair as it was, they fulfilled their humanity and their citizenship in a way that people who scorned them never did. [applause] know he is in the audience. if you were wounded on a battlefield in vietnam, which i was. i love the way you say that for the last five minutes. if you're an american soldier. people will give their lives for you. that is what i saw in