As Vern reflects on a past he thought he knew he unearths some unexpected truths, discovering that the most significant and valuable things in life are sometimes those with no beauty or value at all... the bullet that robbed him of his best friend... the medals that stir his memories of two happy and haunting years in the Far East... the locket that hides a picture of family heartache... and a jagged shard of bombsite shrapnel that makes everything right again.