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

he said something I was not prepared for. He said he had watched me walk down that aisle in my uniform with my head up, and he had thought: what did we do to make her have to be that strong alone? He said the salute was not just about my rank. It was about everything I had survived to get there. He said he was sorry he had not seen it before.

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