[There's the man he was before the war. It's a brief flash, but it fills in another of the gaps in her knowledge, clicking down into place like a bullet in a magazine.]

Depends on who you ask. Where you look. It's sanitized for schoolchildren, glamorized in the movies. Some of it's erased altogether.

[With wry amusement,]

Did you know, for example, that America was responsible for winning the war singlehandedly against Germany? While the French cowered in the streets and the British drank tea.

[She's an art director that knows her history, at least.]

You're still up by two questions.