The Warrior Bond at work. It's an amazing thing.
I'm betting they don't break him, but what if Nelson can honestly say that his memories are jumbles and unreliable?
“I don’t recall.”
If lowlife scum like the Clintons and their friends can use that phrase thousands of times and get away with it, then certainly a war veteran can do the same? Maybe. But maybe this Marine has too much integrity to work that way and prefers to stay true to himself.