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them for as long as they are talking and thinking and so i don t know. i mean, i guess i would say lieutenant dan cause forrest gump was an idiot. [laughter] what time do we got? 9:00? one more good question. first of all, this is the first time i ve ever been to something like this and i m here because of you. your books i love reading your books. thank you. the question i have is, you ve written about so many different battles and different wars so i have to assume you re a research junkie of some kind. [laughter] how do you go from different wars in your books, they re all compelling, they re all well-told, they re all full of detail and i m just kind of curious, how do you do that? that s a good question. all i know is that i do it. whether i do it well or not is up to readers to tell me. you know, when i wrote forrest gump, i wrote one nonfiction i mean, one novel after that and i discovered very quickly, everybody wanted me to keep writing the same book