I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit.

Well, the core of the book and the title mission, the mission of the title is not combat mission so much as it's family mission.

Family mission to serve your country.

That was drummed into him by his grandfather who had been a sergeant in the Army Signal Corps under Phil Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was under Custer, served with Custer, wrote with Custer for crying out loud, and was at Appomattox for the surrender of Lee to Grant, and lived into the 1930s.

So Jim grew up on the knee of this man who was a genuine war hero.

That was on the one side.

On the other side, his maternal grandfather was General Sam Jackson, He was a hero of Gettysburg, Second Day, the Wheatfield, Valley of Death.

I wondered if you could talk about the significance of that film for a moment and what that would have meant for him.

Could you go through that story for us? Could you tell us that story?

Sure.

Um, Anne Frank was from Amsterdam.

Uh, she was originally from Germany, but her family, when Hitler came to power, moved to Amsterdam, and her father, the businessman, set up shop there.

Uh, Anne was born in June of 1929, one month after Audrey.

Audrey was born in May 1929.

These two girls spent the war, the entire war, 60 miles apart, 100 kilometers apart.

Yeah, you nailed it.