Yeah, [He looks at the glass, then holds it out to her, smiling faintly.] keep it coming.

[He needs it, now more than ever if he's going to talk about the army, his family. Because inevitably... inevitably he'll think about it: Preacher. Rico. All the others who died or were injured in the line of duty. They were his brothers, still, no matter what that discharge meant.]

And I don't know. I didn't really think about it at the time. It was just this thing to do, you know? School wasn't working out, and I had nothing else. So I joined up, thought it might buy me some time to get my shit together.

I don't think I knew what family was before I enlisted.