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

is easier to live in than performed peace.

That spring I was asked to speak at a panel on women in command at my alma mater. I almost declined. Then I remembered something a lieutenant had told me years earlier: the stories we don’t tell become the lies people fill in for us.

I said yes.

The auditorium was full. I looked out at the audience from the stage continue reading …