effectively. >> and i'll say it, it certainly affected your coverage, it seems, on the medal of honor ceremonies that have occurred. you know, sometimes these are a 30-second hit on the nightly news. but you've really gone in depth into the individuals and their stories and given them a lot of honor, in some ways bucking that trend. >> well, that's because of the three medals of honor that have been awarded to living service members since i started at cnn. where there is time and space for documentaries. i knew two of the guys, because two of them were in the book, two of them i had -- i had their cell numbers on my phone. so when they got the medals of honors, i was able to call them and congratulate them. actually, for both of them, i knew it was coming ahead of time. so that's been -- that's the story behind that. it's the first time, actually, since 1968 the awarding of medals of honor to former staff