What a laugh. I didn't wonder if I'd just made a new bride a widow, or if he might have had kids, any more than I would have wondered about a snake's mate and offspring. But that's as far as it went. From what I could tell, he hadn't been overly concerned about me. People ask about that all the time.
People usually ask it hesitantly, as tactfully as they can, but they ask it.
Not then, and not now. World War Two was a total thing, us against them, when being against them was unquestionably the right thing to be. I flew for my country, and was proud I could help in any way that I could. Besides, all of my opponents were trying to kill me. And frankly, I always was elated they hadn't.