"You've been very quiet the past couple of weeks.  Is something wrong?"
Jim didn't know how to deal with a quiet Blair.

"It's  this "War and Remembrance" thing that everyone seems to have going
since Memorial Day.  Disney even puts out a war movie!  Excuse me, but
Pearl Harbor occurred in December.  Releasing the movie Memorial Day
Weekend was to maximize profits during the summer movie season."

"Don't you think that we should honor the sacrifice of the people that
fought in wars?  Perhaps show people how horrible it is, maybe so that it
won't happen again?"

Blair gave Jim a considering look.  That, "you don't even want to start me
lecturing" look.

"How many charges are led to someone crying vengeance in the name of
someone else's sacrifice?  "Remember the Alamo" sound familiar?  What
about the Middle East?"

"So what's your solution, Einstein?"  Jim slipped his arms around Blair.

"I don't have one.  I can only love you everyday and hope that I help make
your memories of battles fought, then and now,  hurt a little less."

"Ah-ha.  So we get to the root of this problem.  You are thinking about my
Army memories."

Blair shrugged.

"How did you do it, Jim?  How did you hide being bi-sexual and become a
Ranger and go into Covert Ops?"

Jim was silent.  Blair looked up into his lover's face and read the truth
there.

"No, Jim."

"It was an asset in Covert Ops.  Just another weapon in the arsenal.  But
those missions are so classified that the government doesn't acknowledge
they happened."

Blair hugged Jim tightly to him.

"Did I tell you that I loved you today?"

"I believe you mentioned it.  Now no more of this.  The Army is in the
past.  We have our future to think about."

End