'"No. I often felt like that in America. They've had a war. But it's theirs. Not like ours at all."
Gerald's voice thickened. "That's exactly it, chum. And if everyone is going to act as if it hadn't happened, as if we'd dreamt it up on a bad stomach, I'm going to start believing them. But it's a lie. A lot of spivs who don't know what it was like and don't have any use for us." His arm was on Reeve's shoulder: "Mustn't let the buggers steal a man's shadow...."'
from Sweet Mars (Chapter 3), a piece in Anno Domini by George Steiner
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