Someone to Sit in the Foxhole: A Grandfather’s Speech That Changed Everything

missed his friend. A person who shook in his sleep. A person who sat at the dinner table and couldn’t taste the food.”

Mr. Larkin whispered, “That’s what they’re doing to these kids too.”

He sounded like he was admitting something he’d been afraid to name.

The counselor nodded slowly. “We keep asking them to perform wellness,” she said. “To look okay.continue reading …