"It doesn't matter. Do you honestly think that the generals and the politicians care about what the common soldier thinks? They know more then us, they know better then us. Or they should. They ought to. In the end, I just want to forget all of it. I want to forget all of it and go home."

He turned away. "Maybe it's easier for you. You're, what, twenty years away from the war? I just lived it a few months ago. And you never fought the Russians."