that's really important to me. and it's also been last weekend, i was with many of the vietnam veterans as we watched what unfolded in afghanistan, the travelling vietnam wall was in my district and i spent a lot of time with many of the veterans watching it, their memories and those horrors at what they were watching. and a mother who lost her son in afghanistan said to me, did my son die in vain? and he didn't die in vain. we went in-- this was a forever war. two republican presidents two democratic presidents, president trump was the one that set the date for when we were going to leave, but i don't think we-- any finger pointing is very good right now. we went into afghanistan because of 9/11, because terrorists had murdered thousands of americans on american soil and we were trying to go after osama bin