Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Before we started, there are a few people in the audience i would like to recognize tonight. I understand that there is a large group. From garys families. Standwe ask everyone to so that we can thank you all for being here tonight . [applause] also here with us this evening, our congressional medal of honor recipient, robert friend, one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen. Good to have you with us this evening. [applause] [indiscernible] thank you so much, we appreciate having you here. [applause] melissa and a very special thank you to lori bakker, sitting right here, the secular director of the incident hero foundation, who donated the exoskeleton to gary. [applause] so, there are many honorable and procedures things that we you to do here as empl