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They won’t write about you in the papers, you won’t get any parades. The Official Secrets Act means you don’t talk. Ever. Your family will never know what you did, but everything you do will affect this fight. The people you see, the people you don’t. The people you save, the people you don’t. And the people that do remember you will be the people that fought by your side. They’ll carry your stories. They’ll never forget.

You have no goddamn idea what I’ve had to do to get us this far. Everything I have done has been for the bigger picture.

We must all remember who we are under the uniform, that one day this war will be over, and we will all have to look one another in the eye.

You want me to say it? You want me to say that I’m a monster? Is that it? Your hands aren’t clean either. You’re just like me and you know it.

I want to make sure that you never, ever forget the choice you made to put on that uniform and play your part.

Yeah, we’re already dead, but only if we don’t do anything. Because if we fight, then there’s h o p e. There’s hope for everybody here.

My true duty is to know what is right and what’s wrong, and to follow what’s right no matter what the cost. Because every choice that we make shapes the future, for our families and for ourselves. We have taken strides towards victory, we have also known loss, and we must grieve. So, for the sake of all the souls watching us right now, watching every choice that we make, let us make them proud, let us show them honour and love, and do what is right.

I see now why you do this, even if it’s not safe.