It's crazy, I was just wondering where I could explore this topic and randomly checked the forums here, and here's this topic. I know it was from a year ago, but I'm thinking about this too as a basis of story for a game.
Did you go anywhere with your idea? I know I've seen at least one work...
I was half expecting them to shoot him into space.
Also, I would love to see this and the last chapter animated. These last two chapters were absolutely great.
Problem solved! :D
As soon as she pulled that blindfold off, I thought "You did it to yourself!" No twist of fate, no deus ex machina, no coincidental trip-fall-pull off the blindfold. Nice.
They change stuff for whatever reasons in this series.
Context note: one will see a POW/MIA table at all formal military balls. There's a lone table with a lone chair and plate set, as if to say "this seat is for our brother/sister-in-arms for when they come back".