America built hundreds of warships to fight The War, and they had absolute priority on recruiting the very best Ageless as their pilots.  Most of the rest of us were fighter pilots, but there were barely five thousand Ageless in 2305.  Two thousand of us died.  I know that’s a drop in the bucket to the hundreds of millions of Americans who died, but I knew most of them.  Most of them were my friends, and I will always miss them.