Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know, its a pleasure to be i was invited by chris and jim to speak about the midway, i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. Said thats okay. We have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set table, and thats what im going to do this morning. Et the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few andmark things in terms of japans relations in the world in the 50 years prior to midway, and then were also going to about based on my book the admiral some of the American Leadership that appears at finally were going to do kind of a quick overview what goesl history of on between pearl harbor and june and 4th of 1942. Start by talking about japan ationship between and the United States. Note that there are about at the of latitude. S the difference is that the United States in terms of its moved westward across the north american continent. Faced s it industrialization during the late 19th century also moved westward, but what did t