At My Wedding My Mother Said Uniforms Were Not for Me Until Hundreds of Service Members Rose to Their Feet

logistical pretexts that everyone understood were not logistical. I was introduced to her friends in vague terms that obscured my rank, my command, my deployments. When I called from overseas during my first assignment in Germany, she said I sounded tired and asked whether I was eating properly and had I met anyone interesting, by which she meant someone continue reading …