I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.