I felt the little beads of sweat pooling on my temple. Sit here and look nice...I could do that. But answer questions? I knew I wasn't going to win this little game; that wasn't the issue. I just really, really didn't want to look like a moron in front of the entire country.

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

All I knew was, even if she wasn't mine, I wanted to leave her with a smile.

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions.

So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war