'IT CHANGES WHO WE ARE': "The doctor begins with an apology because the questions are rudimentary, almost insultingly so. But Robert Warren, fresh off the battlefield in Afghanistan and a surgeon's table, doesn't seem to mind.
Yes, he knows how old he is: 20. He knows his Army rank: specialist. He knows that it's Thursday, that it's June, that the year is 1020. Quickly, he corrects the small stumble: 'It's 2010.' He knows that his wife is Brittanie, that she's due with their first child any day now, and that they 'got married two to three weeks before I went to that country.'
Stumble No. 2: 'That country.'
David Williamson doesn't let it slide. "Which country?"
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