He had done nothing wrong and was in no jeopardy and was, by all accounts, an excellent witness, because he simply said what he saw.

I wrote to him.

It took me eleven months to do it and I should have done it the week after Wilmington.

What I said was that he had offered to call for help and had been told not to by a man with a medical background, that the man had been wrong, and that he should never at any point wonder whether he should have insisted, because a twenty-three-year-old is not required to overrule a person who tells him he is a medic.

He wrote back four words: Thank you.