The only way back we've been told about is one I ain't willing to take, and... just in case that really is the only way, I need to know. I mean, you don't have to read the whole section or whatever, just... are we going to win? Hitler'n'Hirohito and all of 'em, they're not going to win over the Allies, right?

[If he seems unnecessarily tense, well... it'll take asking to find out, but it's been a very real and very frustrating fear for him for the past few years that they might. He couldn't enlist because he was too young when the war started....]