 express our gratitude and I'm sure it's yours too for these wonderful people up here. This just doesn't happen with people just happening to drop by so I'm particularly grateful of course to Frank who directed and produced this wonderful program that we've seen from our Naval Academy but all the time this was going on I was sitting over thinking how many times we have seen certainly I have seen it over the years past people up here in a platform giving away the only thing they have to sell and I can remember sometimes being up here in the same kind of occasions where the remuneration was the same back in Hollywood in those days of course whenever they would call you and ask you to appear a benefit that's where the performers perform free I would always try to say as so many others like me if you don't sing or dance you know I'd say well what can I do and they say you can introduce someone else I remember once when there were seven of us lined up to introduce Nelson Eddy singing shortland bread these wonderful people and they don't just as I say drop in you know this takes some doing and putting together and rehearsing and also finding out that two or three of you aren't going to do the same number and working out a real program and they're doing it all because it's something they just believe is worthwhile and that it's their obligation that they should do this and how many times it's for a very worthwhile charitable cause and always their answer is yes when they're asked and I set up their thinking back how many times and how many memories I have people in particular special events I remember one going back to World War two President Roosevelt thought in that first war year of the war I am an American day should be celebrated with ceremony all over the country and so people like these and maybe some of these were there one place the biggest celebration I guess throughout the country was a soldier's field in Chicago the great stadium with 120,000 people was five below in Chicago today Chicago's who glad they're glad they're here but anyway on that occasion he never forget the tiny figure of Helen Hayes introduced and down on the floor of that stadium and 120,000 people with a silence you most could hear as she did not sing but she recited the words of something that all of us from the earliest days in school have learned to sing my country tis of the I think everyone believed that day and 120,000 people thought they were really hearing the words for the first time and that little figure as I say raised her voice and said my country tis of the sweet land of liberty of the icing land where my father's died land of the pilgrims pride from every mountain side let freedom ring just something about all these people around us here tonight there's no way to describe it like so many Americans whenever they're asked they're here and God bless you for a very wonderful evening for all of us thank you