“How am I?” “Except for being a damn fool for wanting to do this in the first place, you’re healthy as a… — Harry Turtledove
“How am I?”
“Except for being a damn fool for wanting to do this in the first place, you’re healthy as a horse,” Freedman answered. “But if they disqualified every damn fool in the Navy, they’d have twenty-seven men left, and how would they win the war then?”
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