Robert Evans

And that's going to stick with him too, right?

This is a big deal to Jimmy.

His two older brothers were both overseas serving by this point, and one of them actually got trapped during the siege of Malta.

Families all over town were receiving telegrams notifying them of their dead sons and husbands with some regularity.

Jimmy watched all of this happen, but wrote later that, quote, I wondered why people wept during the war when their relatives had been killed.

I didn't even know what killed was.

I was much more inquiring than I was affected.

And that can't be true, right?

Because like, you're not a tiny kid at this point, bro.

You were born in 1926.

You're like 14 or 15 when this is going on.

You know what death is.

You totally know.

It's weird to be like, I didn't understand why they were sad that their son was killed.

You know what death is?

You're 14.

You're not like a four year old.

If he was writing about like being a six year old and I didn't understand why.

Well, yeah, that's not weird, but this is weird.

That's a weird thing for you to say.