"Oh. Yes. There was a machine. It. Came down over." Soldat stops, shudders all over once, then shakes their head and starts over, more steadily. "Before and after every mission, the technicians would wipe me. Fry everything." Their memories have been taken over and over and over, more times than they'll every clearly remember, or that they even care to clearly remember.

It's the things in between they want back.

"Maybe more like yours than most people's. Took them away for a purpose. Though I wasn't ever supposed to get them back. Called them malfunctions for a long time." Still do, when it's a full flashback, because they don't know the word "flashback", and it still fits.