" He won't tell me very much about his war.
None of us do. It isn't something to share, you see. What we've seen, what we've done, ought to stay in France. But it didn't, it came home in our memories. They aren't memories we want you to know. You are the world we fought for. Safe and sane and not ugly. Better to keep it that way. "

― Charles Todd , The Black Ascot (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #21)