Okay. Good morning everybody, im particularly excited to introduce this event. When we first began discussing the programming, this is the first panel that we thought of and weve been looking forward to it ever since. People have been writing about warfare ever since we had the book. And all our panelists write brilliantly on the topic but each brings a very different perspective. We have a slight change to our published program in their moderator will be sky montgomery from the Camden Institute of the university of missouri. Im grateful to her for stepping in on short notice so join me in welcoming sky, ishmael beah, Gregory Fontenot, Candice Millard and Whitney Terrell. [applause] thank you very much for that warm introduction. As long as human beings have been waging war, they been selling bad stories. Whether its to celebrate the heroic or merely make sense out of the chaos of combat, we can conclude something of the universality of war to the Human Experience from the fact that pl