Neat short story!

"This was great. I loved the idea of the man that lost his friends to war and then later heard the strange, scuffling sounds that haunted him. I also liked that he later discovered that these sounds were really a comfort rather than a menace. I was expecting things to go horribly wrong, but I'm glad that you didn't. You did a great job of building a relatable protagonist in such a short period of time, and I thought that you also did a good job of setting up the time period, from the setting to the ideals of the protagonist. It was a nice, patriotic, comforting read. The writing itself was clean, and I don't think I ran into any errors. That may have been because I was pulled into the story, of course. :-) Great work! I'd definitely read more by this author!"