Margaret pulls up another chair to sit a ways across from him, leaning against her knees. How does she explain this to the boy...

"As I understand it, Hawkeye suggested you take a trip down to Seoul for some R&R and that's exactly what you tried to do. But you know how the route down to Seoul can get, with troops moving through and the shelling. You came afoul of some fighting that sprung up and came back to us with a bullet wound."