A.J. can't help but crack a smile and laugh at being tickled by Dicho's tail.<br/>"Thanks guys..." He manages to say though his laughter. He truly does feel a little better about what happened, still not proud of his actions but at ease that they find what he did to be 'understandable'. Mark's words still ring in his head;<span style="font-style: italic"> 'And besides, are you really a coward if you could have done nothing to help win that battle anyway?' </span>. He wants to believe that, but in the back of his mind his training tells him that 'Every man, gun, and bullet counts, even down to the very last...'. He pushes that thought away, he doesn't want to remember that now so he focuses on something else.<br/><span style="font-style: italic"> "Were Mark's eyes pure white, or were they just reflecting the sunlight?" </span>He thinks to himself, anything to take his mind off the battle, nay, massacre...