The Captain Knew Me Before the Passenger Did

I’d hate to think the Army trained all human feeling out of you.”

“Close.”

He leaned back, watching me for a moment. “You know that passenger wasn’t the worst part, right?”

I folded the old casualty log and handed it back. “Oh?”

“The worst part was how easy everybody else was ready to let it happen.”

There it was.

The ugly little truth sitting in plain continue reading …