Jake Randolph: Origins Pt. 53

Rivers said that the Army had given me an expense account to track down Col. Hall. But it wasn't bottomless so Rivers advised me to be frugal.

I knew the first thing I was going to have to do was something I swore I'd never do again: return to Germany. It wasn't anything as petty as a bad vacation that gave me my aversion to Deutschland. I killed people there. I saw my fellow soldiers fall and die there. My time there, although necessary, was one of the worst experiences of my life.

And I didn't want to relive it...