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

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I held it up.

“This ball sat in his duffel. He’d pull it out and toss it back and forth with me in the trench when we couldn’t sleep.”

I turned the ball slowly in my palm.

“You know what he said once?” I asked.

Silence.

“He said, ‘If I ever disappear, this proves I was real.’”

My voice broke on the last word.

I cleared my throat hard.

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