"Lawyer's office. They're looking for a entry level clerk and they like the military background," he replied. He would have shrugged, except it would have jostled her, and he didn't want to do that.

"The, uh, human resources manager said they like to hire vets when I talked to him on the phone. I just hope I'm not displacing someone more qualified like before when people hired vets but I can't do much about it either way."

He knew women had worked valuable war jobs and then gotten kicked off the line as soon as the boys came back. It was different now, he hoped, but he wasn't gonna presume it was perfect. Nothing was.