‘It was in the early 1950s,’ she said in little more than a whisper, turning to watch the glow from the wood-stove, ‘all the guys were going off to the Korean War. If you volunteered you got a better posting than if you waited for the draft. America had never lost a war back then, it was all like a bit of fun. Couple months and it’ll be over, we all thought. Go in there, wipe ‘em out, come home heroes. We didn’t understand why we were fighting – didn’t care – it was a war, America was fighting it and so America must be right. Simple-minded times, eh?’ He nodded.