It’s like your heart shattered into a million pieces as you looked quietly with soft eyes and a somber expression toward me. I had been laughing along to one of the jokes a Marine said, his figure tall and lengthy. All you could do was watch and listen to the light-hearted laughs and crinkled eyes as you washed the dishes in the kitchen where the mess-tent laid.

But with sudden shattering of the plate you had been holding onto crashed to the floor, you cringe and my eyes peer over to you.