All right, here we go.

Thank you very much for being here.

I'm a really big fan, so this is an honor for me.

I'm really excited.

I'm really excited about your book.

I'm really excited about just your films the untold

untold history in the United States which I think is fantastic.

I mean that is that's one of my favorite things you've ever done and

so thorough and so interesting but the book at first of all look how good you look in there on the cover there

well it's an old shot I'm handsome bastard look at you looking good there

what here is that from it It was 1968 November. I just come off the

last mission in Vietnam. Wow. It was on a hilltop. We got stuck in the rain in

the Ashau Valley. It was the first cavalry and we really... in the

first cavalry and we really the helicopters couldn't get in for 11 days it was awful

wow we had leeches everywhere and the enemy we didn't know where they were but we felt that they were going to

close in it was but it was too wet ultimately for them to close in but they knew we

were there so we were praying the whole time was kind of nerve-wracking because it was my last few days you

understand I was supposed to get out of there with de-ros leave the country I was

due out I had volunteered for an extra three months in order to get out of the Army three months sooner.

In other words, they had there normally you had to serve if a two-year deal you had to serve six months state side on the back side of it. So I didn't want to do that

because I was going nuts with the rules and the regulations and I'd gotten into some

trouble with that. So I extended in combat for another three months and that ended up in this

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