“I’ve heard that shit before. ‘We was robbed.’ ‘The folks back home let us down.’ ‘The media were against us.’ Shit . . .” He ran a hand through his wet hair. “Only the very young or the very stupid think wars are waged just by the military. As soon as news travels faster than a dispatch rider or a bird’s wing the whole . . . nation . . . whatever . . . is fighting. That’s your spirit, your will. Not the grunt on the ground. If you lose, you lose. Don’t whine about it.
