I Was the Only One at My Grandpa’s Funeral Until a General Saw His Ring and Asked Me One Question

containing the folded flag, the list of handwritten names, and the thin black notebook filled with dates and numbers and operational codes and, in the margins at irregular intervals, the same symbol as the one inside the ring.

The men studied the notebook without speaking for several minutes. One of them finally exhaled. “He kept better records than continue reading …