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

she gave me the slightly uncertain smile of someone who wants to ask a question they are not sure they have the right to ask. Two men at a corner table paused their conversation. One of them said something to the other that I caught only partially, something about having heard I quit, and the other made a sound of sympathetic confirmation.

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