His official papers also indicate Ben never suffered a wound, but his family says that doesn't mean he left without injury. He never did really get over it. I guess it was that war syndrome thing. He used to have nightmares afterward. A lot of those boys had that.
War is a terrible thing.
We're lucky we're not in one right now. I started wandering up and down the beach. He was James Cosby, pharmacist first class, of Cereal Spring, Illinois. He had found the vase lying outside one of the burial vaults. It had blue Japanese characters on it.