My Father Smirked and Told the Wedding Guests

everyone in the house by how little trouble they caused him.

Emily learned to disappear.

I learned to leave.

At Officer Candidates School I found out I was good at the kind of pressure that makes other people loud.

At The Basic School I learned that logistics, done badly, gets people killed in a quieter way than gunfire but just as dead.

At Camp Lejeune,continue reading …