Party in billionaire at the barricades. Those most of these authors have appeared on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] as we were downstairs getting ready to start the ceremony, captain yellin was asking me, do i stand for the army . Or do i stand for the air force . Because he was in the Army Air Forces. [laughter] i said, sir, youre 93 years old, you can stand for anybody you want to. [laughter] [applause] captain jerry yellin is an Army Air Forces veteran who served in world war ii between 1941 and 1945. He enlisted on his 18th birthday just two months after the bombing of pearl harbor. After graduating from Luke Army Airfield as a Fighter Pilot in august of 1943 at the ripe old age of 19, he spent the remainder of the war flying p40, p47 and p51 combat missions in the pacific with the 78th fighter squadron. He participated in the first landbased fighter mission over japan on 7, april, 1945. And
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