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

lot of it,” I said. “Yes.”

“I let you become a stranger.”

“You let distance become the default.”

“That’s my failing.”

“It’s also recoverable,” I said. “If you want to recover it.”

He looked at me over his glass. “You’re willing.”

“I came home tonight,” I said. “That’s an answer of some kind.”

He smiled, faintly, the smile of a man who is tired but who has continue reading …