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

which he loved and which made the chaplain smile. I was present for all of it in a way that surprised me, given that I was also aware, with the low-level monitoring of a person trained in situational awareness, of my mother two rows back on the left.

I could feel her boredom like weather.

We were perhaps fifteen minutes in when I heard the first sound continue reading …