Alex nodded. "Well, it was already going on anyway. We just somehow got involved in it. I never really followed the politics of it, didn't think I needed to until the day that damn letter showed up. I was sent to Vietnam. More of us came back than they wanted I think. Thank Raven for getting me home. She saved my whole unit. If she hadn't we'd have been guinea pigs for someone. But we still lost people..." He stopped, he had to. He bought himself time taking careful sips at his beer.
"I lost my best friend."
He let the words just stay there. He had to. He needed to compose himself. Even if it was years ago for him there was still anger and pain attached to it all. There was so much more to the relationship of Sean and Alex or Alex and Sean, but they were always a pair from early on.
"I lost him to whatever monster was planning on using me and the guys in my unit for their experiments next and I wasn't even there to protect him."