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

wore dress uniforms. Some wore suits. A few were in civilian clothes with their posture giving them away the same way it always does, because you cannot fully remove twelve or fifteen or twenty years of military bearing from the way a person holds their spine.

Staff Sergeant McCall was nearest. I recognized him immediately, built like a fire hydrant,continue reading …