Regarding his meeting with Henry, the soldier said, “Yeah, he was from West Virginia and I’m from Virginia (not originally),” the soldier said. “West Virginia betrayed Virginia in the civil war,” he said, bristling.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” he said, pausing to mourn.  “So there was that between us but he knew a lot about Virginia and the whole area.” He mentioned his oldest friend. “Yeah, he knew where he was from and it was a little town. He also knew the old name for Roanoke… he knew what it used to be called.”

“What’s that?”

“Big Lick. Big Lick, Virginia because they used to have all these salt licks lying around. Yeah, he knew that.”

“Not surprised,” I said as it occurred to me the exchange was Sagittarian. Both men value breath of knowledge

“Yeah, me neither.  And he laughed when I told him about Virginia’s new zoo.”

“They got a new zoo?”

“Yeah, I told him Virginia put a fence around West Virginia and that was their new zoo.”

I snorted.

“Yeah, he laughed too.”

On that, we got into the bathtub.

The soldier was coooool when he was 19. ::swoons::