This is Joe. I met Joe sitting alone on the sea wall. He proudly wears a US Marine hat that says he served in Iwo Jima. He says that he used to be a pretty good dancer but "that was a long time ago." He says he is 85 years old, and laughed when I told him I was 59. "You're still a young pup," he said. 

When asked about his service in Iwo Jima, he looked down and said that he had seen a lot. I was going to ask him more, but he didn't look like he really wanted to talk about it. 

After we parted I saw his car parked along the street. The car had a few bumper stickers on it. Like Joe's hat, the car also announced that Joe was an Iwo Jima survivor. It seemed as though both the car and the hat wanted to announce Joe's trauma, but Joe just wanted to sit on the wall with the sea and the setting sun at his back, and watch the people who passed by. 

Joe is letting his hat and car do the talking.