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My late brother, Truman, told me once that war changes a person, whether you put on a uniform or not, but especially
if you do.
But I know too well this is the way, the only way, to keep close to you someone who is gone from your life. It is better than the alternative—isn’t it?—which is never having had them at all.
“Of course it can. It was stopped. It was stopped when the rest of the world finally said, ‘No more.’ But we waited too long. We should have said ‘no’ at the very beginning. There shouldn’t have been a ‘more.’ We waited too long.”