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Mary Marshall: [coming out of a theater showing a war movie] Is the war really like that?

Zachary Morgan: I guess so.

Mary Marshall: That's funny.

Zachary Morgan: Why?

Mary Marshall: I mean that you should only guess so.

Zachary Morgan: Well, they have experts making those pictures. I guess that's the way they see the war. A beach a mile long, and thousands of soldiers, and tanks, and machine guns and everything. I guess that's the way it is.

Mary Marshall: But it wasn't that way for you, huh?

Zachary Morgan: It's just a difference in size. To a guy that's in it, the war's about ten feet wide, and kind of empty. It's you and a couple of fellows in your company, maybe, and maybe a couple of Japs. It's all kind of mixed up. Sometimes it's all full of noise, and sometimes it's quiet. It all depends on what you're thinking about, I guess. It depends on how scared you are, how cold you are, and how wet you are. I guess if you asked a hundred guys what the war's like, they'd all give you a different answer. Mary. You know what?

Mary Marshall: What?

Zachary Morgan: I mean, usually you don't like to talk about it. I never said anything about it before, not to anybody.

Mary Marshall: I'm sorry, I ...

Zachary Morgan: No. No, I feel kind of good.