“Nothing I can do for you.” “There is if you want to do it.” “My wars were a long time ago.” “All wars are one war. And it never ends.” “I’m not the man I was then.” “Any man who earned the Distinguished Service Cross is always going to be that man, somewhere in himself.” He met her stare. “That’s just rah-rah bullshit.” “Maybe to an Army prick, but not to a Marine’s widow.” After a silence, he said, “Are you always this way?” “What other way is there to be?”
