1942? That would have been during the war, then. Whilst ordinarily he'd dismiss such talk as the ramblings of a man half out of his mind between pain and the medication to manage it, considering all else he has seen here, being told that seems almost normal.

Although, he would have expected to hear that year being mentioned by someone obviously many years his senior. "The year was 2007 when they abducted me. So I imagine the country has changed quite a bit from what you remember."

That would, at the least, explain why Kirkland did not seem to recognise his uniform.