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She seemed completely unaware of hihtened "Is so We wanted to speak to you" He nodded to the Wall Even though he knew, he asked, "Who is here for you?"

"My uncle, Bobby LaFleurette, er brother He’d be in his fifties now, not young anyers over his name "He died in 1975, just months before the troop withdrawal He was only twenty-one years old I’? He was so very young, and in ain over the naht before Robert Petit and right after Douglas Mahoney I’ve alondered how they knew exactly who died in what order--that’s how they’re all listed, you know, in order of their death"

Callie said, "Why do you co, becauseabout him, how fun and wild he was, hoould have been such a hotshot in the business world, if only he’d survived the war My father brought me here when the Wall first opened, back in 1984 I was six years old, and I remember it so very clearly"

Callie said, "Fleurette, remember e talked on Sunday? You said that Danny O’Malley had looked s how, exactly?"

"Like he knew so that neither I nor Eliza knew, and it tickled hi, like he was having this sort of internal conversation with hi"

Ben said, "Think back, Fleurette Do you remember if Danny looked at Justice Califano when he left his cha?"

She closed her eyes a moment, then they popped open "Yes, Danny did do that Yes, he did look at Justice Califano It was a bit of a smirk, really It all happened so fast it really didn’t settle in when it happened But when I close ainst his desk pad, and a s over his face"

"Did Justice Califano notice? Did he look over at Danny?"

"I don’t--"

"Close your eyes again, Fleurette Think back"

Fleurette closed her eyes She swayed a ainst the Wall for support "Justice Califano’s back was to lanced at me before he left--and he looked suddenly tired"

"Tired?"