It's all right. I admit that it's been nice to be among people who...

[He trails off a little, not sure how to say what he wants to say without being offensive to somebody. Give him a moment...]

Civilians are different. War does strange things to people; it's certainly taken its toll on my uncles and my father. In a way, it's been nice to spend time away from all of that, events of today notwithstanding.

[Today is an outlier that shouldn't be counted.]