And thanks to willie for invitig me to come and talk. Well, im here today to talk about my favorite Childrens Book author, and thats a man named h. H. Arnold. Here are a couple of his books. Weve got bill bruce and the pioneer iowauateers. Weve got aviators. Weve got bill bruce becomes an ace in world world war i. So, yes, hap arnold was a Childrens Book author as a young major at fort reilly, kansas. He had time to write a half a dozen books for boys in that tradition of books for boys that were so popular in those days back when boys climbed trees and whittled with their pocket knives and had no video games. But young boys were also very interested in aviation which hap was not as a young boy. Nor was he when he was at west point. He graduated in 1907. But when he got the aviation bug, he fell hard. And he fell rather early in the whole, in the whole history of aviation. Some of you may have heard of his flight instructors. A couple of boys from bicycle mechanics from dayton, ohio, n