 I want to say just a couple of things about the militia from my own personal perspective. I hear a lot of people say well you know according to the Constitution, I'm in the militia because you know I'm an American citizen and it says you're American citizen, you're in the militia. And that's true. All right but if you notice what the Second Amendment says is it says a well regulated militia being necessary. Okay well why does well regulated mean? Does it mean a government regulates it? Well the word regulated is also related to the word regular like you know the British Redcoats during the Revolutionary War the British Redcoats were called regulars. It's the same concept or what does that mean the regular kind of guys. What it means in that time period what regulated meant was it meant trained. It meant well trained not controlled by the government. It just means that these are these guys get out on a regular basis and train and so you know if you're you know feel like you're part of the militia because you're American citizens you know great that's right that you are but I urge you to think about the well regulated part and get out and start doing some training. And one other thing about the militia I'd like to mention since I'm getting getting up there in years now and I hear people often speak about you know the age bracket there. I want to remind people that during the Revolutionary War started on April 19th 1775 that was the day of a Paul Revere's ride. All right the militia of that day consisted of people from 16 to 66. All right but there were a lot of guys who had gotten older and they were not actually officially part of the militia but they were part of the alarm list. All right and these were some of the best fighters of that day because they were all veterans they had fought you know for the British in previous wars. And I want to tell you one in particular the oldest fella known of that day April 1975 was a fella named Samuel Whittemore. I mean if you've heard of Samuel Whittemore. Okay a couple of people heard of Samuel Whittemore. All right on April 1975 Samuel Whittemore was 80 years old. All right he was not actually called out with the militia but he was on the alarm list and what happened was when he got the alarm he grabbed his old saber. He grabbed his two pistols and he grabbed his musket and he went out on his own and he set up himself an ambush behind rocks and he started shooting at the British soldiers from about 150 yards away and 150 yards is quite a distance when you have a smooth bore rifle. All right but he was so accurate and so fast that the British thought there must be a whole group of people over there behind the racks so they sent a whole detachment out to get him and when they got there Samuel Whittemore shot he took one of his pistols and well he shot with his musket he shot one of the British soldiers and killed him. He pulled out his pistol shot another one killed him. Other pistol shot another one and killed him and he pulled out his sword and at that time the one of the British soldiers shot him in the face and blew off part of his face and then they banded at him 13 times and they're banded for about 16 they were 16 inches long and they were stark you know triangular shape so they banded at him 13 times and they left him for dead. All right then his friends came out and found him there later and he was still alive and when they found him he was actually trying to reload his. All right they took him off to the doctor's house and they said and the doctor looked at him and said you know there's nothing I can do for this guy he's too far gone and they said look doc this guy's a hero he said you're gonna have to do whatever you can for him so the doctor patched him up and the best as he could and Samuel Whittemore did die but he died 18 years later and he and he fathered he fathered additional children all right so he died in 90 he died at 98 years old so anyway so whenever you guys start thinking that you know us older guys can't keep up you know hopefully it's not filling potatoes radio okay radio radio is great yes but anyway you're going to be hearing more about the militia from us and again I think the major for speaking that that was great and we're very proud to have you and we're very proud to appreciate very much of service that you guys contribute to to our state and also to our nation. All right there are just a couple more pieces of a business that I need to take care of here