She murmurs sympathetically, as far as she had ever heard the VA wasn't given proper funding, so it was no surprise they couldn't do much for him. She hears the bitterness in his voice as he speaks, and gasps as she realizes he is quite old... uh let's see, joining at 18, add 35 to that... hmm, 53? Well yeah, if it was rounded up to 20, that would be 55, take off the 2 years she added, he would be about 53.  And she was only in her twenties.... She pays attention when he mentions her eyes, blushing as he calls her spectacular and mysterious. "Oh, i am none of those things...."