"I think so. I've heard the same thing from everyone from Earth from after that date that I've asked. At least, anyone who isn't so far into the future that they've forgotten, like the space-fliers."

No one tell them that historians not even fifty years after labeled Korea "the forgotten war."

"But that's just... that one. There will be more, as there always is. John's from Vietnam, isn't he? At least... I've heard that the draft is abolished some time after us. No one else from the States can be driven from their homes."

He looks at the name in the snow.

"May our sons know peace," he sighs. "May the statues they erect for us be reminders enough."