don't you miss having war stories to tell? he said no, my friends never tell the stories. is it your sense that your father, did he ever come clean and tell you the bad stuff that happened in vietnam? >> it's funny, in writing this book, a lot of people asked you what did you learn about your father? you feel like over 40 years you know about everything about him. but there was a year from 1969 when he served in vietnam as a combat photographer that he department want to talk about. i nibbled around it several times. he would have a couple of drinks and try to go there and he just never wanted to. he had these photographs, because he was a combat photographer, so i had some sense of what he had been doing and what he had seen, but he didn't want to talk about it. i think it's what you said. he told me he didn't want to be the guy in the bar trading on the deaths of 58,000 guys in vietnam. he didn't want to be a war story guy. and also he was living in