The silence lingers for another handful of moments.

"Anyway." Gaeta rubs the back of his head; sighs again, quieter. "That -- may not have been the best example to make my point, but I mean to say: you don't have to be part of a formally recognized military to count as a veteran of a war. I'd count the civilian side of my mutiny as veterans. We all fought against an enemy in service of something bigger than us."