I Sat Quietly at My Father’s Veterans Ceremony Until a Uniformed Officer Ignored the Stage and Came Directly to Me

military to the event because it might confuse people, after the morning assembled itself into something we all politely agreed to call normal, I went outside onto the porch and stood in the September air and thought about nothing specific for a few minutes, which is the closest thing to rest that a day like this allows.

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