Im speaking to a bunch of people whom i know, love and respect. I ask you to please not a guy with his speech. [laughter] im just blown away by how many people are here and i kind of just want to save all the time for oneonone with everybody. There a lot of you havent seen in a while but my mom wanted me to speak or like an hour and someone else told me to be brief, be funny and be seated so im going to try to find somewhere in between those two. Im going to read a short excerpt from the book and then im going to talk for six or seven minutes and then we will get to signing. A brief disclaimer before give the story. I dont want to give away the punchline so maybe i should wait until afterwards. I dont know if i lost my place there. At this point i have gone through Pilot Training and my appointments and applying with the California National guard. Toward the end of the twomonth operation that i talked about briefly in the book the upcoming break where both was planned to spend time bac