 I wasn't a huge fan of the rock songs and I really didn't like to see the Tories. But I think if I'm honest about it, I was really just frustrated because we had Tom Hanks, we had Steven Spielberg and basically the entire band and others, Hollywood crew, and we still couldn't beat the rock songs. There was just something about the rock songs and their pride and their spirit of core that we just couldn't touch. So if all the Pollywood asked behind us, we were still second place even on side of our own installation. So clearly my problem was more jealousy than it was any kind of dislike for the rock songs. Back when I was coming here, I was going to be rock six. It was really when it dawned on me as we started going through kind of rock association, participation in how this reunion was going to go that I really understood what the true power of the rock songs were. This regiment is the strongest regiment in the army because of the association. You guys provide us a link to our history. Like every unit has history, but not everyone has that link where it's concrete for them. You guys are that concrete link. Both of our history are lineage into the traditions. So I really just give you guys a round of applause for everything you do to make me a rock song such a great experience for all of us. So if any of you know or some may not, it was a real busy last 18 months for the rock songs. Three state deployments that the brigade went on. First was into Africa. St. Unicef Cameroon, Tunisia, Nijagoudi, these exercises and some of the other countries out there. Not a real traditional AOR for the 101st or for the rock songs, but an area that's getting increasingly important for the United States. It's starting to blow with the peace of China. So rock songs, as usual, called and sent forward to help the United States kind of move into a new area and start expanding our presence and our partnership in that area. I don't have much to say to you, not much I can say. I hope this has done my last reunion and I'm afraid it is. In order to kind of keep a straight mind, I have brought with me a roughly 100 year old bottle of scotch. Now I don't have a bottle of scotch. It's somebody's hand that I can trust. That doesn't do harm to him, don't you think? I've got a scotch right down here in the half of China. It's a 100-year-old bottle of the balance of a lot of scotch. I thought, well, it's the kind of scotch. What I'd like to see happen is hold that bottle of scotch in its enclosure there with me, with the material that they're wood and the leather, and not open it until the last two guys are at the last reunion with the last and the last of them there, drink it open, drink the drink to all of us, and do what the hell they won't do with the rest of it. Now, I don't want you all to have a drink of it, but I'm afraid you're not going to be able to do it. But you've seen the movie, it kind of reflects some of your memories, I'm sure. Some of them have wiped on and waved off, or where they were not sharply used to be. I used to know a lot of you by your name. Now I just recognize you by your face, and I'm sorry that I have not said hello to you in the hand of all of you. But I want you to know that consider you a friend, a brother, and a brother-in-arms. My life and career were spent in the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army was my wife of wood and iron. It didn't mean anything. My wife, my wife. I looked over the army with my family all my life. And then my second family came when I got you. Now, some of you here are new to the 1-H-7, and I want to distinguish this to you. You're the damn largest people in the world. You're from here now, and now it's unheralded, equally by any other unit of its size, anywhere in the world, no matter who they are. Now, one unit in the down-the-stakes army, in any pilot, anywhere, any job, has ever earned two citations for a dollar in less than 30 days. What the 1-H-7 did, it's unheralded. It's unheralded. Nobody has ever done it before. You guys did it. Not the people who are in the show. You, you alone, nobody else. I'm proud to say I serve above you. And I'm proud to say I consider you my brothers and sisters. And I consider you my family. I can do anything for you or help you in any way. The proudest moment of my life was when I was commanding the 1-H-7. Commanding a lot of units, bigger, smaller, but this is my pride and glory. Always will be. I thank God for you. Welcome to you. Thank you. What was it like afterwards to continue to serve? And I think our younger generation here, a lot of repetitive deployments and all that. And, and I really treasure the value in our soldiers today as well. But I think that's a lesson on how you cope with all that. That could really be great to hear you share a little bit. If anybody wanted to echo something on that, I know a lot of you right now are going to be like emotionally drained. I want to say much. While you're trying to find somebody else out there that's about to speak, at least give you my perspective. The Army in 1972 was broken. We had racial problems, racial strife. We had drugs. We hadn't even been to the rest of the University of Females in the Army. I stayed in the Army to rebuild it. And it's evidenced by a different shield, different storm. You saw the professionalism and execution of soldiers in 1991, that time period between 1972 and 1991 was all worth it. We rebuilt the Army, the Army of today. You've got to represent them out there now. How does going through something like that and losing a lot of the members come back to how new people come in and fill? Does that affect new relationships? Or does that strengthen how you bond with new people that have come in and become brothers in arms and people that you have relationships with? I left Vietnam on my own and did that GI bill thing. And then I sobered up about two years later. I did do a serious bunch of drinking. And I didn't like being in this building. I was out downtown to drink for a recruiter. He said, you're too old. We don't want you back. I said, well, thanks a lot. I went next door to hold the Army guy who proceeded to sign me up and said, I can make airborne give you $10,000 and send you to Korea. So that's go waste to Korea. So I went to Korea and that was when the soldiers were, we were all volunteers and it was getting to be a really good Army. Everyone that I was with, we had a lot of Rangers in the unit. It's all our NCOs, officers. I did a tour of JSA. Those guys were so tight, you know, up at the Trusco. After that, I went back, I went to Fort Campbell and I didn't know about the rocket science then. But I went shortly because they stuck me in fourth, fifth of the 187. Then they moved me to fourth of the 187. Then I went back to Korea. Then I came back to Fort Campbell and went to third of the 187. And third of the 187. Yeah, they were pretty good.