Tom Junod

And moral injury is another.

And yet, I think that the book is very much about moral injury.

Not when Bill Leavitt likes your face, not when Elizabeth Taylor can't keep her eyes off you, according to my dad.

Yeah.

So, yeah, that was all there for them.

Well, but especially for my dad, because I mean, my dad was seriously wounded, you know, in the in the hedgerows of Normandy.

He he suffered.

First, he he was hit by the force of a grenade, if not the shrapnel.

And then when he was in the field hospital, the field hospital got hit by artillery.

And so he almost died.

I mean, the rumor that I've heard not from him, but from, you know, my cousins and my aunts was that he was given last rise.

And so then after that, he's about to go back to the front.

And what happens?

There's a lieutenant who hears him sing and takes away his gun and transforms him from an infantryman to a band singer.

Gatsby-esque.

It is.

It's Gatsby-esque.

It's Don Draper-esque.

Yes.

And the name of the act, the show, is called For Men Only.