"Listen, man. I aint said this to many people. But I was not over there. In Nam."

"You weren't?"

"Listen man. People think if you have a quiet moment that there's some secret, you been out of the world."

"Huh?"

"It's got to where you don't overstate your opinions, people say you got this dark secret, musta been in the conflict. Like there wasn't enough brothers and friends already gone over there. But I don't waste my breath straightening them out. You with me?"

"Sure, man."

"Good."

"But you were, weren't you?"

"No."

"It's cool, I'm with ya."

"Certain?"

"Uh-huh."