years in September.”
“Do you want to stay in?”
“Depends on the job. My injuries, both leg and hand, will keep me out of the field.”
She studied him for a long moment. “Why did you join the army?”
He shrugged. “Nine-Eleven, like a lot of people my age. A close friend died in the South Tower.”
“What were you planning to do?”
“Sports management. High school or college athletics. I’d just received my undergrad degree and was planning to get my master’s, but sports didn’t seem that important after Kevin died. Instead, I went into officer candidate school.”
“What about your family?”
“There isn’t any,” he said in a flat tone that ordinarily would have warned most people off. He’d already said more to her than he remembered telling anyone else. More explanation would carry too much pain.
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