[ WP ] A new law is enacted that erases soldiers memories of their time at war .

Dave walked in the door of the VFW, the rest of the guys were sitting at the bar. Taking a spot at the bar, a beer was set before him. No one talked, no one laughed, we just drank our beers, paid our tabs and left. 
 
 It was the same deal, every Friday night. There had been a guy a while back, a paper tiger who'd never deployed but somehow got a service medal... he talked a lot but then he never came back. Instead Dave, and the other `` real'' Veterans, came together to share in the horror of nothing. Really was n't much else to it. 
 
 Dave's wife asked him why he went and honestly he was n't sure where she meant? To the VFW bar? To the war? Well Dave had a nice house now, his school bills were paid for, and the same could not be said of any of his childhood buddies with their sandcastle dreams and dirty little apartments in the shadow of factory smoke towers. Except perhaps he'd trade that in a minute for the goddamn hole in his life. Soon after he'd gotten home, reports of the atrocities came back... whole villages and towns burned with everyone still inside. People crushed under tank treads or shot for sport. The politicians tried to shift focus away and point out how quickly the enemy had surrendered, how controlled they were now, and for most people that was alright. For Dave, well, looking at the videos for himself... he had to accept reality that maybe he was the guy skinning a cat in front of its owner, laughing as he did so. 
 
 The road to hell is paved with good intentions, the goddamn hippies on Capital hill had talked about how the mind wipe process would cure the epidemic of PTSD cases and make the men who came back be just as good as when they left, washing away their sins. Unfortunately, some enterprising individual realized the need for restraint was n't required anymore... after all you ca n't go to jail for a crime you do n't remember, in fact if there are NO witnesses, how would anyone charge you with a crime in the first place? It had snowballed after that until the whole expedition became disassociated killers, knowing that when they had did the job, that they'd go home and be treated like hero's with financing to buy a nice home in the suburbs and have a `` good'' life. 
 
 What really scared Dave was a question; `` Was I a bad person, or was I not bad enough to ensure there were absolutely NO witnesses?''
