They Hid Me Behind A Pillar At My Brother’s Wedding

before they cut it away at the base clinic.

Behind us stood then-Colonel Harland, younger and angrier, his jaw set so hard it looked painful.

And behind him, barely in frame, was our house on Wilson Street.

Or what was left of it.

My father made a sound from the head table. Not a word. More like a chair scraping inside his throat.

“Bill,” he said.

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