He can picture himself already, a young soldier flush with victory, searching through the cheering crowd on the platform for the anxious faces of his mother, his father, his girlfriend or his wife, and perhaps his children, older now.
Il se voit déjà, le jeune soldat tout glorieux de sa victoire, cherchant dans la foule qui applaudit sur le quai, les visages anxieux de sa mère, de son père, de son amie ou de sa femme, de ses enfants aussi peut-être, qui auront grandi.