Amery nodded. "My country has, too," he said. "Some days, it feels as though the war will never end." But if it did, what would the airmen do? Amery was lucky enough that he could build a future for himself, he could go off and be an archeologist like he wanted to, but the others...Rook...war was all they knew.

"Luckily, there's none of that here."