he had me come up to do the mentor pin and as he did that, he said stay here for a minute. and so i stayed there for a minute. he said, now go sit down. and the representative came in and he had the medals and then he came up and he said, would you please come up here again. so i went up front and they awarded me my medals. i'm like numb. i had no idea this was happening. and above all, my wife kept it quiet for a whole year. >> so you finally -- we should point out, these are not medals that everybody gets. not that everybody gets them, but these are not run of the mill medals. how good does it make you feel, fred? >> very fine. it's undescribable because it gave me a little bit of closure. first closure came when i met my friend from vietnam, leonard. he was my best buddy. and i met him a year and a half