My thanks to you as well, although I’ll be more effusive tomorrow. I’m quite sad that this exercise is coming to an end. I feel strange about that, as though I am sad that the war is over, when one should never be sad about the end of a war.
You are correct, but the sadness is not about the end of the war, but about the end of the era. I am grateful that I did not have to fight WWII; the regret is that I was never able to experience the national unity and desire, not just for military victory, but moral victory, the chance to be part of the greatest generation. As Henry V via Shakespeare put it, we hold our manhood cheap today, as we see all those standing on the Missouri, and the countless millions they represented.