Not until dawn will anyone completely see what Jessica has done. She never will. Strike analysis is above her security classification.”
-- Narrator (Prologue)

Importance: For security purposes, Jessica is destined to never learn the outcome of the missile that she launched. It is believed that the terrorist al-Yarisi was killed in this strike but Jessica knows that at least two innocent girls or young women were killed as well.

You accuse yourself of taking two innocent lives. But I can only tell you to think of the people you have stopped who would murder a hundred innocents for their cause.
-- Narrator (Prologue)

Importance: After Jessica has written to her father telling him how she believes she killed two innocent young girls, Don writes a response telling her that she needs to think of the innocent people she has saved by taking out such a powerful terrorist. At the time it was still thought that al-Yarisi had...