The Doctors Said The Little Boy Was Beyond Saving

he’d spent his whole career around men and women who came home from the water not able to speak.

“Where’d you learn that,” he said. Not really a question.

“On a roof,” I said. “A long time ago. From a corpsman.”

His chin trembled. He took half a step back, and he came to attention – this seventy-something man in a windbreaker in a hospital hallway in continue reading …