i always really enjoy having you on general. i know given all the years you have dedicated to this country, do you have a favorite memorial day memory or a story? well favorite is a tough ward to describe. most moving. yeah very emotional moments. truthfully brooke the kinds of things i felt with our own soldiers is important. i also had an experience in europe when i was commanding there and went to the american battlefield cemetery in the netherlands where we saw the citizens of this very small dutch town basically adopt the graves of 8,000 soldiers who were there from world war ii. they pass it from family to family. they take care of those graves. i tell you, that s a very moving experience when you have people of another country saying we thank america for giving us this freedom. i hope some day we ll see the same thing in iraq and afghanistan. absolutely. and seeing all the pictures here this morning from arlington national cemetery my own