Ah Tiffany, that was all a long time ago. Sometimes we all get a little maudlin but most of the time I've learned to laugh. I like to share stories because that's what we did, in some ways we even became stories. The war was what it was and I am who I am because of it. To forget it would be to forget all those people we lost in it but it would also cut away to much of myself.

[He smiles at her.]

And most of the time, I like myself.